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. -- -=] Ford [=- . . (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) . : , ford@kenobi.cts.com This space under construction, ...!ucsd!elgar!ford pardon our dust. ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com