From: Brock Weaver <brockweaver@...>
Date: 2005-08-31T05:22:48+09:00
Subject: Re: how do you describe '#!' in written english?

I have heard "*" called "star" or "splat".  I even heard an old VAX
guy call it "squip", though I have never heard anyone else call it
that.  He was one of those unique guys -- of course, aren't all VAX
guys nowadays? :-)

On 8/30/05, David N. Springer <springer@siliconlogic.com> wrote:
> 
> >does '*' have any alias also?
> >
> >
> That would be ab "asterisk". :-)
> 
> 
> 


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Brock Weaver
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