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Subject:Re: Up and down thing From:"Karl A. Hakkarainen" <karlh -at- AUGGIE -dot- AUGMENT-SYSTEMS -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 5 Oct 1996 09:19:18 -0400
We've typically called "|" a vertical bar, sometimes a vbar in code.
kh
At 09:11 AM 10/5/96 -0400, Paul David Marvel wrote:
>Whirlers:
>Any ideas about what to call the "logical or" symbol on the keyboard--the
>up-and-down thing that usually resides above the front slash? My audience
>will not understand "logical or" and a casual test of "up-and-down thing"
>resulted in my colleagues pointing to the arrow keys and exclaiming that
>such a term is not worthy of our docs.
>We also thought of using "shift + front slash," but I'm not sure the users
>will differentiate front and back slashes. We are also not sure if the
>up-and-down thing is above the front slash on all keyboards. Is it?
>TIA,
>-paul
>_______________________________________________
>Paul D. Marvel marvel -at- brahms -dot- udel -dot- edu
Karl A. Hakkarainen Technical Documentation Manager
Augment Systems, Inc. 508 392-8626 (voice)
Westford MA 01886 508 392-8636 (fax) http://www.augment-systems.com/
