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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: Need help for a Calculator program
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Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> I'm not clear what you are asking for. I guess "full stop" means "hit
> the return key" or "generate end of line" or something. Why do you
> want to get rid of that?

The misunderstanding here is that the original poster is British. The
British use "full stop" to refer to the dot at the end of a sentence
that Americans call a "period".

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Jeffrey Carter