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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why are @, `, and $ not used in C?
Message-ID: <660061@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 89 22:55:41 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> As I understand it, the reason that @ was not used instead of * for
> indirection was that @ was the UNIX line kill character.

Hmmm? How about "#" (the "classic" erase character)?
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Shankar.