From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:04:23 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix taste (Re:  terminal - just for fun)
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

> > I break with the past for character-erase, though: backspace, not #.

At one time, it was fashionable in Australia to claim that #/@ were 
"traditional" in some sense (probably because the DEC assembler used them 
as sigils), and when a US visitor came out he announced that most US sites 
switched away from them, to the sound of dropping jaws.

> Do you still consider '^' the shell's inter-command pipe character?

I was surprised when "chdir" became "cd", but I suppose it fits the 
philosophy of 2-letter commands.

-- Dave