Re: Symbol for money.

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:47

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In article <3A1B0A62.99F065A2@card.kyiv.net>, Alt  <alt@card.kyiv.net> wrote:
>I mean programmers languages, several scripts, configuration files...Look attach
>it's a configuration script from my Linux
>where per 2200 symbols 27 are symbols of dollar.
>And there is a lot of such files.

Are you talking about the shell using dollar signs to indicate variable
references?  This is a purely arbitrary character, just as DOS uses % in
batch files.  Since it has nothing to do with money, or anything national,
why does it need to be changed to something less nationalistic?  What
difference does it make?

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