In <4e6fa929.7090...@neo.tamu.edu>, on 09/13/2011
at 02:04 PM, Richard L Peurifoy <r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu> said:
>I suspect that these restrictions originally came about because the
>keypunches and printers of the time didn't handle such things well.
Some of the rules, perhaps, but a hyphen in the member name was
accepted by the R/i (C/I) for decades before IBM added code to
prohibit it. Since some of us used it as a wildcard, we were not
amused :-(
--
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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