What is the typing character "~" called, and how it is used? It seems to come up in temp files.?

Answer 1

It's called tilde. It is used in many cases to take the place of several letters like an apostrophe.

Answer 2

It is referred to as a tilde and older versions of Windows use it when displaying file names that are longer than 8 characters. The ability for Windows XP to display temp files is based on an older technology that can not display extended file names (longer than 8 charaters).

Yuo will also see this in older software programs, most often when you intall them. It will ask you to intall into C:\Program~\Games or similar.

Answer 3

~ is a called a tilde. It has no special significance, other than just another character you can use in a filename. It is often used in temp files so that you can sort the directory listing alphabetically and find them all at the end and easily delete them all in one shot.

Answer 4

The ~ character is called the "tilde". Usually it is used to give an approximate value, eg ~1000 people (about 1000 people). Otherwise, it is just a nonsense character that people put into file names for whatever reason.

Answer 5

It's called a "tilde", though some call it a "squiggle". It appears over certain Spanish letters to donote pronunciation differences, as "Ñ" instead of "N", meaning that it should be pronounced as "nya".

Answer 6

It's a tilde. the computer folks started using it probably because it is rarely used in typing.

Answer 7

It is a tilde, pronounced till dee. Used in accentuations and some other substitutions.

Answer 8

it is a tilde.
it is a character which some people use for things like how dashes and semicolons are used.
tildes are weird characters.
and it also represents like a lot of stuff cut out to fit in more text

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde

Answer 10

tilde is mostly used in programming languages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde