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echo: jamnntpd
to: TOMMI KOIVULA
from: PAUL QUINN
date: 2019-10-21 17:31:00
subject: CHRS: UTF-8 4

Hi! Tommi,

On 10/21/2019 04:58 PM, you wrote:

 TK> Very long time when fidonet was alive in Finland, the was one guy whose
 TK> nick was //Albert. He was also a point of mine. Those two first signs
 TK> "//" mean a remark in a certain programming language. So I started to
 TK> use the remark sign of BASIC. :)

 TK> You may ignore everything behind "'" .:D

Ooh.  Well in that case if you ever see ::Paul, you may do the same...

(Using :: was my favourite way of doing MS-DOS BATch REMark statements.  Using
that sequence instead stopped command.com from parsing a line of comment beyond
the REM, which it would still do.)

;)

Cheers,
Paul.

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