From: Sandy McPherson <sandy@wgs.estec.esa.nl>
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/18
Date: 1996-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3267723B.95C@wgs.estec.esa.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9610171618.AA08190@most
In the UK some people say 'hash sign'. Don't ask me where this comes
from though, it was probably invented by a hippy programmer in the
sixties.
I think the # on US touch tone telephones is called the pound sign,
because one 'pounds' it in desperation when one gets sent in circles by
a computerised answering service!.
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Sandy McPherson MBCS CEng. tel: +31 71 565 4288 (w)
ESTEC/WAS
P.O. Box 299
NL-2200AG Noordwijk
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1996-10-17 0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson [this message]
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: char David Kristola
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1996-10-17 0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) John Walker
1996-10-15 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Andrew Lynch
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-27 0:00 ` @@ robin
1996-10-02 0:00 help: character to integer Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-02 0:00 ` George Haddad
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-07 0:00 ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) Adam Beneschan
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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