From: kst@sd.aonix.com (Keith Thompson)
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/23
Date: 1997-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E935uL.IKx@thomsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5jfles$3i9@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com
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In <5jfles$3i9@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com> Dave Smith <david.h.smith@gecm.com> writes:
[referring to the Walnut Creek Ada CD ROM]
> I bought the August one last september, for =A312 sterling. It wasn`t
> even in a sale.
If this seems confusing, it's because the pound sterling symbol was
converted to the 7-bit ASCII string "=A3" by a MIME converter somewhere.
So, he's saying he paid �12 sterling, (12 pounds sterling), currently
about $19.60 US.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <01bc45df$10fa6480$d27d8ea1@AaBbCcDd>
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Ada -- a popular language? Robert Dewar
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Stanley Allen
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-04-11 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-04-13 0:00 ` Bill Keen
[not found] ` <5ivrre$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <5j4kfi$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Byron
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Dave Smith
1997-04-23 0:00 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
1997-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Latin1 Peter Hermann
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Ada -- a popular language? Michael Feldman
[not found] ` <5ivta3$en0@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
[not found] ` <5j04g7$42s@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
[not found] ` <5j11vb$h86$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <JSA.97Apr16143427@alexandria>
[not found] ` <5j4kli$1g1@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dewar.861244012@merv>
1997-04-19 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Ingemar Ragnemalm
1997-04-16 0:00 Adrian B.Y. Hoe
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1997-04-16 0:00 Adrian B.Y. Hoe
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