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Subject:Re: Abbreviation for kilobits per second From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:17:15 -0800
On Wed, 26 Jun 1996 19:35:17 -0400, DAVID IBBETSON wrote:
> Sabahat Iqbal Ashraf publishes a table of the SI prefixes.
>He gives <mu>, the Greek character mu for micro. This is correct, but often
>not available, or only available with difficulty.
I normally find the Greek characters from 224 to 239 on my ASCII chart
(mu being 230), but this isn't always available either; typing Alt-230
in PMMail gives me a 'z'. As with any special characters, it depends
on the character set and codepage your system is using.
>P.S. Readers do know what a typist is?
Adherants to that ancient and nearly extinct religeon of Typism?
<g,radfc>
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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