Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Prentice Hall listening?
Message-ID: <1988Sep7.200711.5128@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3935@louie.udel.EDU> <5398@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <1339@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 88 20:07:11 GMT

In article <1339@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>... For the record, the U.S.
>does not have a country code of its own.  It shares the code 1 with Canada.

Close but not quite.  Country code "1" is for the "Unified Calling Area", or
some such blurf, which covers the US, Canada, Mexico [I think], and a fair
number of other little odds and ends in places like the Caribbean.  Think
of it as the code for North America.
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