In
<!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA5wj89uWCQUCKM3bb1qg+DMKAAAAQAAAAsn2x5Gg8F0y/[EMAIL
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on 09/11/2005
   at 03:49 PM, "Lance D. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:

>The ^ symbol is the negation sign.  An alternative to this is using
>\.

No; the ^ symbol is the And sign, but an early version of ASCII had ^
and ¬ at the same code point. It was only one of several such
inexcusable pairings.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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