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From: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Name that character!
Message-ID: <1991May29.165249.6222@ohm.york.ac.uk>
Date: 29 May 91 16:52:49 GMT
References: <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991May28.130224.23110@spider.co.uk>
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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In <1991May28.130224.23110@spider.co.uk> scottm@spiderman.spider.co.uk (Scott Mackie) writes:

>In article <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk>, eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods) writes:
>|> 
>|>     There seems to be approaching agreement on a number of one or
>|> two syllable convenience names for characters. I wonder if there is a
>|> definitive list - if not, perhaps we could go about creating one. So
>|> far I've got (from listening to the dictations going on around me):
>|> 
>|>     !       shriek

>I've always called this "pling" - can't remember where I first found it called
>this tho' ;-(

I started my computing life on an Acorn Atom, and the manuals for
that referred to "pling" - it was actually used as a word oriented
peek/poke instruction in the Atom BASIC - in a very similar way to
how * is used in C, but always affecting 4 bytes.

        Nigel.


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