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Subject: ^
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Date: Sat, 24-Sep-83 13:00:45 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 24 13:00:45 1983
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I've seen the \ (backslant) character used elsewhere as a character macro
for lambda.  This seemed like a nice idea, but likely to cause trouble on
UNIX(tm).  Is this a common practice?  How about ^ (carat), which looks
like a capital Lambda?