filename separators and option indicators

[Sam Wilson]

In article <1990May30.045903.14249 at agate.berkeley.edu> dankg at ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Kogai) writes:
>	And I think that apply to other Indo-European language character sets 
>also (Suppose British uses starling figure for the place of backslash?)

Nope, the standard place to put a pound sterling sign (a curly 'L' with
a '-' or '=' through it) is where the '#' usually is.  On most keyboards
here that's shifted 3.  Some keyboards put it in place of grave '`'
('back-quote'). 

Sam Wilson
Edinburgh University