Or maybe you create a Quantum Leap from one account to another!?!?

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Allen E. Elwood
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 12:57 PM
To: 'U2 Users List'
Subject: Re: [U2] Etymology of "Q-Pointer"


another plausible possibility was that after creating the q pointer, the
file had new been Queued for usage..... 

or perhaps the programmer that named it was hungry, and his wife was making
Quiche that night.....  hmmm.... that made me hungry.....!

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 9:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [U2] Etymology of "Q-Pointer"


Early versions of Pick did not natively have a way to reference the Master
Dictionary at all.  That is, you could not open the master dictionary as a
file because there was no reference to it, to use as the text handle against
an OPEN.

This is why the MD itself had a Q pointer called MD, which just had a Q in
the first field and nothing else in it.

Now having an item in the master dictionary to point at itself, you can

OPEN "MD" TO F.MD

Q pointers do not need anything in the second field.
If you only have a Q in the first field and then a name in the *third*
field, then it assume you are making a "short" link (quick link) to a file
with a long name.


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