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Re: "shift-splat-B"
Authored by: MaxMarino on Aug 14, '03 07:24:45AM

Just comes from my habit: I always check all menus and kb-shortcuts of all applications.

Splat meaning depends on where you are: on a Mac is the Command (or feature) key. Some MIT people use it for '#'; in IBM, DEC and other stands for the asterisk '*' character. This may derive from the "squashed-bug" appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers.

It is also an obsolete name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII circle-plus character, finally it is sometimes used by mathematicians as a notation for "tensor product".



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