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at the risk of sounding Platonic, unless you have a specific reason you
don't feel good about it, do what you audience does and call it a marching T
or marching R. You can always include a subparagraph that explains it
quickly and simply. why reinvent the wheel?
-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy10th -at- aol -dot- com <Kathy10th -at- aol -dot- com>
>
>I'm documenting procedures for a certain department. One of the things
they
>do involves transmitting and receiving batch files. During the
transmission
>of the batch file, a "T" slowly moves across the screen. Once it reaches
the
>right side, it vanishes and reappears on the left to begin moving across
the
>screen again. This continues until the transmission is complete. The same
>thing happens when you are receiving, only you get an "R" marching across
the
>screen (cute, huh?). Since the process can take up to 45 minutes, I need
to
>note it in my document.
>
>But, what do I call it? Everyone here calls it the "marching T" (or R, as
>the case may be) but I don't feel good about that.
