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From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Why is it * and not STD: ?
Summary: my mother  disagrees
Keywords: my mother
Message-ID: <1991May21.133734.25340@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 21 May 91 13:37:34 GMT
Sender: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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The recent discussion of * and #?, made me remember something that
I did not understand, when I first heard of it: Why is "stdin/out"
called * and not some  threeletterthing with a colon at it's end???
   I think myself, it's because it would be inconsistent, but is
that why. Of course, I don't propose Commodore to forget * and use
something else, but why isn't * a XXX: thing?0
--
From the notorious
                      Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department
Bed og arbejd !            University of Aarhus,  Jylland (!)
(Pray and work!)  AMIGA!  pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk | I'd rather play Moria.