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From: sleat@sim.ardent.com (Michael Sleator)
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Subject: Re: What to know & universal icons
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Date: 30 Aug 89 01:44:25 GMT
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In article <8351@boring.cwi.nl> lambert@piring.cwi.nl (Lambert Meertens) writes:

>) Icon 3, down or back:
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>On overhead signs on highways Icon 3 means "forward".

Strange... I never thought of this interpretation.  I always thought of the
downward arrow as indicating "this lane", i.e., a selection rather than a
direction.  The direction is implicit, in that if you try and go backward,
you will probably be killed.


Michael Sleator
Ardent Computer
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