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From: gary@ncar.ucar.edu (Gary Strand)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Name that character!
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Date: 28 May 91 17:12:34 GMT
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> John Woods

>	!	shriek

  "bang", as in e-mail addresses

>	#	hash

  "pound"

>	*	splat, star

  "times"

>	(	open (this seems a little unsatisfactory!)

  "open paren"

>	)	close (ditto)

  "close paren"

>	?	? - any ideas? 
 
  "question mark"

>	[	opensquare

  "open bracket"

>	]	closesquare

  "close bracket"

-- 
Gary Strand                     The more corrupt the state, the more numerous
strandwg@ncar.ucar.edu                    the laws. -- Tacitus, Roman senator