Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!husc4!wen From: wen@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (A. Wen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this.... Message-ID: <5126@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 16 Aug 88 19:02:49 GMT Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: wen@husc4.UUCP (A. Wen) Lines: 13 In article <215@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM> ericb@mango.UUCP (Eric Black) writes: > '#' is "pound" [Stanford types sometimes use "hash", I'm an MIT type] We've always called it "sharp;" I suspect that "pound" is a by-product of the fact that the British pound sign is often on the same key > '~' is "squiggle" [some folks don't know whether "tilde" is '~' or '^'] Doesn't anyone else in the world call it a "twiddle?" A. Wen wen@husc4.HARVARD.EDU wen@harvunxu.BITNET