> Nice! That's a new one for me. :) Can someone enlighten me to the origins of > "whack'? This would be the clever term for the backslash, of course. :) Most of these are in the jargon file: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/ As far as I can tell, Whack is only listed under ascii: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html JDR