On Saturday, December 03, 2011 at 02:22 am Dale Miller wrote: > I hope, since this is not about "USS", that I won't be moderated on > this. I wish to reply to a question John McKown raised on 18 Nov > :"And what is the proper word for the PL/1 "not" sign' ? (x'00AC' in > Unicode). It is a standard operator in formal mathematical language, > AFAIK almost universally used to indicate logical negation in an > expression, and normally called the "negation symbol", but > informally called the "not sign".
Users of x3270 tend to call it a "CircumNot" (I'm not sure whether Paul Mattes coined the term, or one of the earlier x3270 maintainers). Other old 3270 users just call it "Shift-6" (but don't try that on your PC keyboard). Bob Woodside ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
