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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Name that character!
Message-ID: <754@taumet.com>
Date: 30 May 91 18:02:37 GMT
References: <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991May28.130224.23110@spider.co.uk> <1991May29.165249.6222@ohm.york.ac.uk>
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nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) writes:

|In <1991May28.130224.23110@spider.co.uk> scottm@spiderman.spider.co.uk (Scott Mackie) writes:

|>In <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk>, eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods) writes:
|>|>     !       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" ...

Printers (that is, persons in the printing trade) in the US have
traditionally called it "bang".  Programmers in this country seem to have
adopted "bang" as well.  On the other hand, I've never seen or heard
"pling".  Would someone from some other country care to comment?
-- 

Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com