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From: landauer@drivax.UUCP (Doug Landauer)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: terminology survey
Message-ID: <171@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 19:43:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 19:43:18 1985
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In article <384@ttidcb.UUCP> guzman@ttidcb.UUCP (Marc Guzman) writes:
> "What do you call the strips of paper, with the tractor feed
>  holes, that you can tear off of computer paper?".

This question was asked and answered last year in a survey in
a [micro?]computer magazine (I forgot which one).  The winning
term was "perfory", which seems to be a portmanteau of
"perforation" and "periphery".
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