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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 08:34:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160711123430.GD7815@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1607111303430.17030@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk>

Tony Finch scripsit:

> I am failing to remember where I have seen /\ and \/ used in the wild.

I don't think anyone ever has used them; they were just a suggestion by
Bemer which induced him to lobby for \ in ASCII-63.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
The present impossibility of giving a scientific explanation is no proof
that there is no scientific explanation. The unexplained is not to be
identified with the unexplainable, and the strange and extraordinary
nature of a fact is not a justification for attributing it to powers
above nature.  --The Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. "telepathy" (1913)


  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-11 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-10  0:52 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-10  1:51 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 12:09   ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 12:34     ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-07-14 14:48       ` Christian Neukirchen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-09 13:22 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-09 15:59 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11  6:44   ` Peter Jeremy
2016-07-10 14:11 ` Nemo
2016-07-10 20:23 ` pete
2016-07-08 14:52 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Clem Cole
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-09 17:03   ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21     ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-10 14:38       ` [TUHS] Slashes Christian Neukirchen
2016-07-08 11:25 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Norman Wilson
2016-07-10 18:26 ` [TUHS] Slashes Adam Sampson

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