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Subject:Re: question about term ("wild card"/"wildcard") From:Stuart Reynolds <stuartr -at- FIRSTGRAPHICS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 9 Aug 1995 01:10:09 -0800
-- [ From: Stuart Reynolds * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
> FWIW, The Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary has an entry for "wildcard
> character."
>In "The Computer Glossary - The Complete Illustrated Dictionary" by Alan
Freedman, "wild cards" is >listed as two words.
Pretty sad state of affairs, when an industry can't decide how one of thier
own terms is defined. I checked it out with two different spell checkers on
my system. Both are MS apps and get this, they can't agree. Pretty nerfty
stuff eh what? Geez.
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