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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>

>As long as we're being Unixy here (I assume that's where \ - se'ebu came from),
>~ could be 'zdani bu'.

Clever! Or "sinso bu".

>^ = te'abu

In Pascal, yes, but in C ^ is used for onai, and adding "bu" to "onai" results
in "o naibu".

>_ = cnita bu?
>| = pagre bu? (the 'pipe' concept in various computer contexts)
>{ = kalri bu
>} = ganlo bu - I'm not so sure about these - do 'open' and 'close' work here?

No, kalri is said of doors and passageways. An open brace doesn't allow
something through that a close brace stops.

phma