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Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
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Date: 6 May 89 01:52:13 GMT
References: <147@ixi.UUCP> <1558@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <30104@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <30104@apple.Apple.COM> desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers) writes:
>In article <1558@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> wyatt@cfatst.HARVARD.EDU (Bill Wyatt) writes:
>>
>>But anyway, the character is formally called an `octothorp'.
>
>That's been hashed around on the telecom groups several times, and the
>conclusion seems to be that 'octothorpe' is a term that was used for a
>few years by Bell Telephone and then dropped since no one else used it.
>
>				Peter Desnoyers

Believe it or not, there is a document for ANSII.  It gives the names for
each of the characters in the character set.  Some examples:

      #  pound sign
      ^  circumflex
      \  reverse slant
      _  underline
      ~  overline (or tilda)
      `  accent grave
      @  comercial at sign

   Marv Rubinstein