Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!csu-cs!silver From: silver@csu-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Terminal Mumps -- the ultimate (?) list Message-ID: <2272@csu-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Jun-83 21:12:49 EDT Article-I.D.: csu-cs.2272 Posted: Sun Jun 19 21:12:49 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jun-83 11:19:42 EDT Lines: 56 I collected all the articles I've seen for the last six months and created this document, which is as complete and correct as I could make it. If you have additions, please MAIL them to me and, if interest warrants, I'll post an update when things settle down again. Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcld!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TERMINAL MUMPS: Popular and Bizarre Character Names Summarized from USENET articles. Characters listed in ASCII order. For each character, "official" names appear first, thence others in order of popularity (more or less). ! exclamation point, exclamation, bang, factorial, excl, ball-bat, smash, shriek, cuss, wow !? interabang (as one overlapped character) " double quote, quote, dirk, literal mark, rabbit ears # pound sign, number sign, sharp, crunch, mesh, hex, hash, grid, pig-pen, tictactoe, scratchmark, octothorp (from Bell System) $ dollar sign, currency symbol, buck, string (from BASIC), escape (from TOPS-10) % percent sign, percent, mod & ampersand, amper, and, address (from C) ' apostrophe, single quote, quote, prime, tick, irk, pop () open/close parenthesis, left/right parenthesis, paren/thesis, ears, so/already * asterisk, star, splat, wildcard, gear, dingle + plus sign, plus, cross , comma - hyphen, dash, minus sign . period, dot, decimal point, radix point, point / virgule, slash, stroke, slant, diagonal : colon ; semicolon, semi <> angle brackets, left/right angle, less/greater than, read from / write to (from UNIX), brokets, crunch/zap, suck/blow = equal sign, equals, gets ? question mark, whatmark, wildchar, ques @ at sign, at, each, vortex, whorl, cyclone [] square brackets, left/right bracket, bra/ket \ reversed virgule, backslash, backslant, escape (from UNIX) ^ circumflex, carat, uparrow, hat _ underscore, underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow ` grave accent, grave, backquote, backprime, birk, blugle, back tick, push {} brace, curly bracket, curly, leftit/rytit | vertical bar, or, v-bar, pipe, gozinta (last two from UNIX) ~ tilde, swung dash, squiggle, wiggle, twiddle, enyay ---------------------------------------------------------------------------