RE: Spelling out, was Acronyms

Subject: RE: Spelling out, was Acronyms
From: Paul Hanson <PHanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:10:14 -0500

if not in the technical manual that references the term, where should a
'not-necessarily-technical end user' learn what ASCII means?

Paul

> >I'd be curious on other comments on this. Even in a technical document
> for not-necessarily-technical end users, would you say:
> >
> >"This mail program uses only ASCII text, meaning the standard characters
> on your keyboard."
> >
> >or
> >
> >"This mail program uses only American Standard Code for Information
> Interchange (ASCII) text, meaning the standard characters on your
> keyboard."
> >
> >>
>
>

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