Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!husc6!bbn!bbn.com!cosell From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this.... Message-ID: <28664@bbn.COM> Date: 19 Aug 88 01:04:24 GMT References: <5126@husc6.harvard.edu> <4511@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 21 In article <4511@cbmvax.UUCP> sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA) writes: }In article <5126@husc6.harvard.edu> wen@husc4.UUCP (A. Wen) writes: }> 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 } } I've always called it a quadraplex(us) ;-) I hesitate to string this one on, but (a) the '#' has no official "name" as far as we were able to tell ("official" like 'caret' or 'colon' or 'ampersand', etc), and (b) the Phone Company's name for the char on the key in the lower-right-corner of a keypad is "octothorp". As far as we could tell, they just invented this term out of whole cloth. Dunno what they call the char in the lower-left-corner (surely "star" or "asterisk" is too easy, if you're going to coin "octothorp" for the other corner) __ / ) Bernie Cosell /--< _ __ __ o _ BBN Sys & Tech, Cambridge, MA 02238 /___/_(<_/ (_/) )_(_(<_ cosell@bbn.com