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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
Summary: What the hell is a .....
Keywords: my favorite unix command
Message-ID: <5546@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 13 Aug 88 22:34:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.5546
References: <2213@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <6804@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1284@flatline.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1284@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
>In article <6804@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
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>What the hell's a "backtick".  Is it anything like a grave'? :-)
>

I believe that grave, agouve (definitly sp ?) and circumflex are the three
french accent marks. Backtick is primarily a British (and therefore
candian :-) and therefore north east USA :-) :-) term for an
opening single quote. Also called a backquote. Or as they say in Tejas,
``The thing under the squiggly thing on an A1000 keyboard. Y'all''

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                 Who are these ones that would lead us now ?
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard