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From: prgclb@ihuxm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Name of `#' with documentation
Message-ID: <305@ihuxm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 09:24:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 27 09:24:01 1983
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Organization: BTL Naperville, Il.
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So, Pacific Telephone says the official name for "#" is "number sign?"
A recent Illinois Bell employee magazine article insisted that
the real name is "octothorpe."

				Carl Blesch
				Bell Labs - Naperville, Ill.
				IH 2A-159, (312) 979-3360
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