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- Path: huey.cadvision.com!usenet
- From: rutat@cadvision.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: How to dial * (star) # (double cross)
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 23:39:50 GMT
- Organization: CADVision
- Message-ID: <4f64g6$1rbs@huey.cadvision.com>
- References: <4ert8e$sb@mothra.westworld.com>
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- > bbergman@westworld.com writes:
- <snipped>
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- > FYI the technobabble ( $5.00 words ) are * ( star ) # ( pound or
- > pound-sign )
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- Bruce, the correct term to describe a # is actually "octothorpe" -- and, no, I did
- not make that up. The pound sign thing is slang. Just in case Alex Trebeck ever
- asks... <grin>
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