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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Jan 1998.
Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

In article <34b...@news3.ibm.net>,
	tru...@ibm.net (Truly Donovan) writes:

> I use "less than" and "greater than" when they occur in a context
> where "less than" and "greater than" are meaningful.  However, most of
> time that *I* have to refer to them, they are much more meaningfully
> called "angle brackets."

And of course, when properly typeset, the symbols for these are different,
and french quotes are different again.

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From: mba...@iee.org (Mark Baker)
Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
Date: 1998/01/12
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