The # key. For your edification ;-) http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm btw The Jargon File [1] used to be the *nix community's point of reference, but doesn't seem to have kept up with the last decade, and the buzzing twitter of the blogosphere. Should it? Does it matter? - Richard [1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html