Re: Charlie and COMMON

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Awww! You take all the fun away! Splat is kind of the same ilk as ping - 
Packet InterNet Groper - some of these computer dweebs do get 
interesting ideas!!

Cheers
Vern

On 5/16/2022 5:15 PM, Don Brown wrote:
> While I have heard Asterisk and Splat I would normally use Star and I 
> don't remember having to explain that to anyone.
>
> Cheers
>
> Don
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> From: "Alan Shore via MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I had heard of asterisk being called "splat" and "twinkle" and the 
> exclamation point being called "bang" as well as "shriek"
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Charlie and COMMON
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> Splat has been in use a long time, so far as I can tell. A sentence in 
> the "asterisk" wiki page says, "In Commodore (and related) 
> filesystems, an asterisk appearing next to a filename in a directory 
> listing denotes an improperly closed file, commonly called a "splat 
> file"." This goes back to 1977, at least. I believe I heard that the 
> name comes from the sound (and how it looks) when a bug smashes into 
> the inside of the monitor screen. Exclamation points are "bang", so 
> shell scripts in bash start with hash-band - #! - TMI coming - check 
> this out for fun! https://ss64.com/bash/syntax-pronounce.html 
> <https://ss64.com/bash/syntax-pronounce.html><https://ss64.com/bash/syntax-pronounce.html 
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> Cheers
> Vern
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Oberholtzer" 
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> I've used that "splat" for so many years I cannot remember. Until now I
> was completely unaware of its origin. Nice to know.
>
> Charlie had just left the COMMON board when I first joined it. It was a
> pleasure watching him lend his managerial and people skills when
> contentious items of discussion came up, and at that time there were
> several. Charlie's technical prowess aside, he was a great man.
>
> --
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
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> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 8:04 AM Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis <
> midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
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> > I too learned 'SPLAT' from Charlie. At one point in 1988 we hired a
> > developer from India who had no middle name. We used everyone's initials
> > for changes in programs and required 3 initials to keep things neat and
> > in line. So hers became G*P which as you can imagine was pronounced 'Gee
> > Splat Pee' :-) She is known by that even today over 30 years later.
> >
> >
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