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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Message-ID: <30104@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 May 89 19:20:11 GMT
References: <147@ixi.UUCP> <1558@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1558@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> wyatt@cfatst.HARVARD.EDU (Bill Wyatt) writes:
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>But anyway, the character is formally called an `octothorp'.

That's been hashed around on the telecom groups several times, and the
conclusion seems to be that 'octothorpe' is a term that was used for a
few years by Bell Telephone and then dropped since no one else used it.

				Peter Desnoyers