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- From: geletka@interaccess.com (Tom Geletka)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: How to dial * (star) # (double cross)
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 19:26:25 GMT
- Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider
- Message-ID: <4faufp$dge@nntp.interaccess.com>
- References: <4ert8e$sb@mothra.westworld.com> <4f64g6$1rbs@huey.cadvision.com> <4f90k1$25s@gti.gti.net>
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- cuthe@gti.net wrote:
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- :In article <4f64g6$1rbs@huey.cadvision.com>, bbergman@westworld.com wrote:
- :: 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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- :Maybe you know the name of the @ symbol, too? I heard it once, but forgot.
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- It is the "commercial at". See
- http://jasper.ora.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_32.htm#SEC130
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