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From: eer@ritcv.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
Message-ID: <126@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 10:37:29 EST
Article-I.D.: ritcv.126
Posted: Thu Feb 26 10:37:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 02:48:24 EST
References: <667@rtech.UUCP> <1074@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <486@sw1e.UUCP> <1277@beta.UUCP> <1104@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: eer@ritcv.UUCP (Ed Reed)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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In article <1104@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> arosen@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Andy Rosen) writes:
>In article <1277@beta.UUCP> hp@beta.UUCP (Akkana) writes:
>>Everybody I've met seems to pronounce the "G" in Gnu.  Is this just
>Is a "^" a carrot or an up-arrow?
>

I got into the bad practice of calling it a 'hat' - like a dunce cap -
with customers on a Honeywell minicomputer, who used ^ as the
prefix identifier for disk volume names...it got to be a habit to call
the fixed disk platter by its name 'hat - fixed zero', or ^FIXED0.

Only once did one of our customer developers spend more than 2 hours
talking to a novice customer trying to get a directory listing of
'HATFIXED0'.


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