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Just for fun, I decided to see if the Web had a copy of the ANPA character
set anywhere... 
so I used Alta Vista to search for "ANPA character set." First 
thing it found was 

ranu/anpa
     Anemone parviflora. Elevation Range: 3,030 to 3,180.
http://www.nr.usu.edu/Geography-Department/utgeog/utvatlas/family/ranu/anpa.html
     - size 131 bytes - 25 Aug 95

I only looked at the first page of hits, but the 
most interesting were:

http://www.anpa.com/public/chicks.htm

and

http://www.stud.unit.no/~anpa/twinpeaks/twinpeaks.html


Just love this medium....

Bob


On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Steve Auerweck wrote:

> Johathan Oatis wrote:
> >At the risk of asking an old question, I'm wondering what your newspapers'
> >style is on the "@" sign. At Reuters, some of us use "(at)" with an
> >editor's note so papers that can't print it or have terminals that can't
> >handle the symbol can work with the copy. In another case, at least one of
> >us just types "at" without an explanatory note. Or should we just use "@"? 
> 
> The important thing here is that the ANPA wire service character set 
> does not include an @.  Instead, that position in the ASCII chart is 
> occupied by "Lower Rail."  So wire services should use "(at)", and let 
> the receivers translate it as they will.
> ---Steve Auerweck
>    System Editor
>    The Baltimore Sun
> 
> 


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