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Subject:Re: What do you call this? From:Doug Fettig <fettig -at- IFU -dot- IFU -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 9 May 1995 19:30:41 LCL
Bev asks:
>> What do you call the circle a (@) that is commonly
>> called the AT sign? I know there is a more precise
>> name for it somewhere. Does anyone know it?
Avoid the fancy name, if there is one. I have been
completely perplexed by instructions for a telephone
that told me to press the octothorpe button.
