John Gilmore writes: > Mr Altmark is again only marginally correct about the term > 'underscore', as the OED quotations for it make clear, it is a > slightly antique term used literally.
The OED defines "underscore", among other meanings, as: "a key on a computer or typewriter keyboard which produces a short horizontal line on the baseline." Is this somehow unclear? It certainly does not seem "antique". > The response it elicited from Mr Altmark requires another sort of > comment. Its tone is magisterial. Its content is radically > inadequate. He should do his homework before he ventures another > such. I shall not be so polite next time. For Mr Gilmore to accuse anyone else of taking a "magisterial" tone is truly hilarious. Allen Gainsford Info Developer, Banking Shared Services HP Enterprise Services (South Pacific) Office +64-4-819-5236 | Fax +64-4-819-5955 | Email allen.gainsf...@hp.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
