back slash

[Ishwor]

Which is back slash / or \ ?
If one back slash what is the other called ?
How do we pronounce # ?

[Bruce]

"Ishwor" > wrote in message
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Which is back slash / or \ ?
If one back slash what is the other called ?
How do we pronounce # ?
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Backslash \

Forward slash, (or just slash) /

How do we pronounce # ?

Pound or Number #

Question ?

Never saw them together.

Bruce

[Mark Weinreb]

"Ishwor" > wrote in message
...
> Which is back slash / or \ ?
> If one back slash what is the other called ?
> How do we pronounce # ?
>

/ is "slash" or "forward slash"
\ is back slash
# is "hash", although Americans call it "pound" probably because they can't
spell "hash". (Just kidding, guys.)

[purplehaz]

Back slash = /
Forward slash = \
Number = #

Ishwor wrote:
> Which is back slash / or \ ?
> If one back slash what is the other called ?
> How do we pronounce # ?

[Bruce]

You got 'em backwards


"purplehaz" > wrote in message
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Back slash = /
Forward slash = \
Number = #

Ishwor wrote:
> Which is back slash / or \ ?
> If one back slash what is the other called ?
> How do we pronounce # ?

[Tom Brown]

Ishwor,

The / is called a forward slash and the \ is called the backslash. The
forward slash is also sometimes referred to as the "slash" and in aviation
terms, it's called the "diagonal." I call the # the "pound sign" and the *
is called the "astrisk" or "star." While I am yakking, the ! is actually an
exclaimation mark but sometimes called "bang," the @ is called the "at sign"
and the & is called an "ampersand."

The real computer gurus might have more sophisticated terminology but this
gets most of us hackers by.

Tom

"Ishwor" > wrote in message
...
> Which is back slash / or \ ?
> If one back slash what is the other called ?
> How do we pronounce # ?
>
>

[Plato]

Ishwor wrote:
>
> Which is back slash / or \ ?

\

> If one back slash what is the other called ?

forward slash

> How do we pronounce # ?

number


--
http://www.bootdisk.com/

[purplehaz]

Mark Weinreb wrote:
> "Ishwor" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Which is back slash / or \ ?
>> If one back slash what is the other called ?
>> How do we pronounce # ?
>>
>
> / is "slash" or "forward slash"
> \ is back slash
> # is "hash", although Americans call it "pound" probably because they
> can't spell "hash". (Just kidding, guys.)

LOL - I call it number sign. Usually an automated phone pronpt will call it
pound. Hash is something you either eat or smoke depending on what kind of
hash it is. ;o)

[purplehaz]

Dang - typo --- lol.
A backslash is also known as a reverse solidus.

Bruce wrote:
> You got 'em backwards
>
>
> "purplehaz" > wrote in message
> ...
> Back slash = /
> Forward slash = \
> Number = #
>
> Ishwor wrote:
>> Which is back slash / or \ ?
>> If one back slash what is the other called ?
>> How do we pronounce # ?

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In ,
purplehaz > typed:

> Dang - typo --- lol.
> A backslash is also known as a reverse solidus.


Don't forget "virgule," a word that is less frequently used for
"slash."

Back when I worked on IBM mainframes, I (and lots of others)
often had trouble pronouncing the two characters that JCL cards
began with: //, pronounced "slash-slash." In my mouth, more
frequently it came out "slash-shlash."

I wanted to convert everyone to saying "virgule-virgule," but I
never had any success. ;-)

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

[Unknown]

What mainframes (IBM) have you worked on?
"Ken Blake, MVP" > wrote in message
...
> In ,
> purplehaz > typed:
>
> > Dang - typo --- lol.
> > A backslash is also known as a reverse solidus.
>
>
> Don't forget "virgule," a word that is less frequently used for
> "slash."
>
> Back when I worked on IBM mainframes, I (and lots of others)
> often had trouble pronouncing the two characters that JCL cards
> began with: //, pronounced "slash-slash." In my mouth, more
> frequently it came out "slash-shlash."
>
> I wanted to convert everyone to saying "virgule-virgule," but I
> never had any success. ;-)
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>

[Tim Slattery]

"Mark Weinreb" > wrote:

># is "hash", although Americans call it "pound" probably because they can't
>spell "hash". (Just kidding, guys.)

Scholars bicker on this one. It's a pound sign, number sign, hash, or
octothorpe. Or maybe something else that I've never heard of.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)

[David]

"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message =
...
> Ishwor wrote:
> >=20
> > Which is back slash / or \ ?
>=20
> \
>=20
> > If one back slash what is the other called ?
>=20
> forward slash
>=20
> > How do we pronounce # ?
>=20
> number
Octothorpe

David

[purplehaz]

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
> In ,
> purplehaz > typed:
>
>> Dang - typo --- lol.
>> A backslash is also known as a reverse solidus.
>
>
> Don't forget "virgule," a word that is less frequently used for
> "slash."
>
> Back when I worked on IBM mainframes, I (and lots of others)
> often had trouble pronouncing the two characters that JCL cards
> began with: //, pronounced "slash-slash." In my mouth, more
> frequently it came out "slash-shlash."
>
> I wanted to convert everyone to saying "virgule-virgule," but I
> never had any success. ;-)

Wow, I can honestly say that I have never heard of that word before. Learn
something new everyday.

[Mark Weinreb]

"Tim Slattery" > wrote in message
...
> "Mark Weinreb" > wrote:
>
> ># is "hash", although Americans call it "pound" probably because they
can't
> >spell "hash". (Just kidding, guys.)
>
> Scholars bicker on this one. It's a pound sign, number sign, hash, or
> octothorpe. Or maybe something else that I've never heard of.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(DTS)
>

Well, to me a pound sign is, and always will be, "£". But then I am English.

[larry]

never heard that. virgule is French for comma..

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
> In ,
> purplehaz > typed:
>
>
>>Dang - typo --- lol.
>>A backslash is also known as a reverse solidus.
>
>
>
> Don't forget "virgule," a word that is less frequently used for
> "slash."
>
> Back when I worked on IBM mainframes, I (and lots of others)
> often had trouble pronouncing the two characters that JCL cards
> began with: //, pronounced "slash-slash." In my mouth, more
> frequently it came out "slash-shlash."
>
> I wanted to convert everyone to saying "virgule-virgule," but I
> never had any success. ;-)
>

[Keith Miller]

I like octothorpe!!! Imagine a phone system saying "...to return to the previous menu, press the
octothorpe key." :)

Keith

"Tim Slattery" > wrote in message
...
> "Mark Weinreb" > wrote:
>
> ># is "hash", although Americans call it "pound" probably because they can't
> >spell "hash". (Just kidding, guys.)
>
> Scholars bicker on this one. It's a pound sign, number sign, hash, or
> octothorpe. Or maybe something else that I've never heard of.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(DTS)
>

[Steve Nielsen]

Looking up "virgule" on www.m-w.com produces:

Main Entry: vir·gule
Pronunciation: 'v&r-(")gyü(&)l
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Latin virgula small stripe, obelus, from
diminutive of virga rod

Main Entry: 2 diagonal
Function: noun
1 : a diagonal straight line or plane
2 a (1) : a diagonal direction (2) : a diagonal row, arrangement, or
pattern b : something oriented in diagonal position
3 : a mark / used typically to denote "or" (as in and/or), "and or" (as
in straggler/deserter), or "per" (as in feet/second) -- called also
slash, solidus, virgule

Steve

larry wrote:

> never heard that. virgule is French for comma..
>
> Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
>
>> In ,
>> purplehaz > typed:
>>
>>
>>> Dang - typo --- lol.
>>> A backslash is also known as a reverse solidus.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Don't forget "virgule," a word that is less frequently used for
>> "slash."
>>
>> Back when I worked on IBM mainframes, I (and lots of others)
>> often had trouble pronouncing the two characters that JCL cards
>> began with: //, pronounced "slash-slash." In my mouth, more
>> frequently it came out "slash-shlash."
>>
>> I wanted to convert everyone to saying "virgule-virgule," but I
>> never had any success. ;-)
>>
>

[Tom Brown]

Ishwor,

The / is called a forward slash and the \ is called the backslash. The
forward slash is also sometimes referred to as the "slash" and in aviation
terms, it's called the "diagonal." I call the # the "pound sign" and the *
is called the "astrisk" or "star." While I am yakking, the ! is actually an
exclaimation mark but sometimes called "bang," the @ is called the "at sign"
and the & is called an "ampersand."

The real computer gurus might have more sophisticated terminology but this
gets most of us hackers by.

Tom

"Ishwor" > wrote in message
...
> Which is back slash / or \ ?
> If one back slash what is the other called ?
> How do we pronounce # ?
>
>

[larry]

http://ets.freetranslation.com/

try this. or ask a French teacher - NOT Monica L. !!

Steve Nielsen wrote:
> Looking up "virgule" on www.m-w.com produces:
>=20
> Main Entry: vir=B7gule
> Pronunciation: 'v&r-(")gy=FC(&)l
> Function: noun
> Etymology: French, from Latin virgula small stripe, obelus, from=20
> diminutive of virga rod
>=20
> Main Entry: 2 diagonal
> Function: noun
> 1 : a diagonal straight line or plane
> 2 a (1) : a diagonal direction (2) : a diagonal row, arrangement, or=20
> pattern b : something oriented in diagonal position
> 3 : a mark / used typically to denote "or" (as in and/or), "and or" (as=
=20
> in straggler/deserter), or "per" (as in feet/second) -- called also=20
> slash, solidus, virgule
>=20
> Steve
>=20
> larry wrote:
>=20
>> never heard that. virgule is French for comma..
>>
>> Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
>>
>>> In ,
>>> purplehaz > typed:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dang - typo --- lol.
>>>> A backslash is also known as a reverse solidus.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't forget "virgule," a word that is less frequently used for
>>> "slash."
>>>
>>> Back when I worked on IBM mainframes, I (and lots of others)
>>> often had trouble pronouncing the two characters that JCL cards
>>> began with: //, pronounced "slash-slash." In my mouth, more
>>> frequently it came out "slash-shlash."
>>>
>>> I wanted to convert everyone to saying "virgule-virgule," but I
>>> never had any success. ;-)
>>>
>>
>=20

[Steve Nielsen]

When I was building PC clones back in early 80s there was an older
customer who insisted on calling a back slash "back splash" and calling
a floppy disk "sloppy disk".

It also continues to amaze me that many of our long time users still
can't seem to get the difference between foward slash and back slash
down. We can tell them a hundred times to no avail.

Steve

Tom Brown wrote:

> Ishwor,
>
> The / is called a forward slash and the \ is called the backslash. The
> forward slash is also sometimes referred to as the "slash" and in aviation
> terms, it's called the "diagonal." I call the # the "pound sign" and the *
> is called the "astrisk" or "star." While I am yakking, the ! is actually an
> exclaimation mark but sometimes called "bang," the @ is called the "at sign"
> and the & is called an "ampersand."
>
> The real computer gurus might have more sophisticated terminology but this
> gets most of us hackers by.
>
> Tom
>
> "Ishwor" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>Which is back slash / or \ ?
>>If one back slash what is the other called ?
>>How do we pronounce # ?
>>
>>
>
>
>

[Plato]

Steve Nielsen wrote:
>
> It also continues to amaze me that many of our long time users still
> can't seem to get the difference between foward slash and back slash
> down. We can tell them a hundred times to no avail.

That's why you have to insist on an on-site visit to solve their
problem.