Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard 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 Lines: 15 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: > > >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'' -- Who are these ones that would lead us now ? richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard