an odd question

-----Original Message----- From: Dan Wright [mailto:dtwright@uiuc.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 8:47 AM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: an odd question not sure if this is exactly on-topic, but I figure if anyone would know, it would be this bunch... where did the convention of using "^x" to represent "Ctrl-x" come from? I wonder because you see that convention everywhere, but it's totally non-intuitave -- i.e. why does the carat symbol mean "hold control while pressing the following key"? I think this came up because someone pointed out that using pine the first time was really hard until they figured out what "^" meant. so, anyone know where that convention came from? - Dan Wright (dtwright(a)uiuc.edu) (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright) -] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [- ``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan