Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this.... Message-ID: <8808162044.AA29370@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 88 20:44:31 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 18 :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 always say HASH and I'm from Berkeley.... though sometimes the Cops get a bit confused anyway. :> '~' is "squiggle" [some folks don't know whether "tilde" is '~' or '^'] : : Doesn't anyone else in the world call it a "twiddle?" I used to say twiddle but it sounds like am reciting a fairy tale sometimes. -Matt