Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
Summary: "#" == "Octothorpe"
Keywords: silly names for silly symbols
Message-ID: <4522@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Aug 88 05:17:02 GMT
References: <5126@husc6.harvard.edu> <4511@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 15

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]
>
>        I've always called it a quadraplex(us) ;-) 

Naah.. I thought everybody knew that the "#" symbol is an octothorpe.
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