dvk (12/03/82)
What are mupsimae? Anyhoo, "pair n's" are what we used to call "ears". When I worked on Hydra (the multi-processor OS for C.mmp), the user interface to the Kernal was designed so that activating a Commands of Procedure capa was done with "()" while leaving off the ears gave you the last return value without executing the proc. You could of course put parameters inside the ears, but it was common to tell someone "just do an obinfo ears" [meaning: type obinfo()], instead of saying "obinfo open close" or "obinfo paren paren". I have also heard "!" called "shriek". For sticklers "/" is called "virgule", (which is an "unspoiled" ghoul),and I believe that "#" is called an "octacet", which is of course a hell of a lot of tennis! -Dan Klein, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh
lda (12/06/82)
If we would just learn to speak/hear ASCII it would solve all our problems. Anyone offering a course? beep,fleep,fleep ...!WIN!burl!lda
wombat@sri-unix (12/08/82)
#R:we13:-27600:uicsl:7500002:000:166 uicsl!wombat Dec 7 14:23:00 1982 A normal accent looks like this: ' A grave accent looks like this: ` (goes the other direction) Don't know what the distinction in sound is. Both are used in French.