Subject: Re: ~/glove/post.2

From: [email-masked] (Walt Sullivan)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 92 22:52:16 EDT

Delving way back in my memory, I recall some telephony terms that might
help. The three conductive surfaces are called "tip", "ring" and "sleeve".
"Tip" is the tip of the plug, which goes into the jack first. "Ring" is
the band (between the two insulators) that comes next, and "sleeve" is the
portion behind that (closest to the wire). I would interpret "center" as
"tip" (when viewed end-on), "middle" as "ring" and "outside" as "sleeve".
Including your terminology, I'd suggest the following mapping:

tip    ==> center  ==> inner-most
ring   ==> middle  ==> middle
sleeve ==> outside ==> outer-most

               -------\_____
                       _____]===>
               -------/
                  ^      ^    ^
                  |      |    |
                  |      |    +--- tip
                  |         |    
                  |      +-------- ring
                  |         
                  +--------------- sleeve

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