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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
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Date: 19 Aug 88 01:04:24 GMT
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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)

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