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Oh yeah, in phone-speak "*" is a 'Star', not an asterisk.... but then
"asterisk" from latin/greek means "little star".... and is three
syllables and eight letters long, versus one and four.>>
In some quarters, we call it a Nathan Hale on the theory that he once said:
"I regret that I have but one asterisk for my country."
Mike Starr
mike -dot- starr -at- software -dot- rockwell -dot- com
