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Subject:Re: What is "-30-" at the bottom of an article From:BrYan Westbrook <westbrok -at- HSNP -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 6 Jul 1997 17:36:39 GMT
Only coming through in waves, MZ <zarkovim -at- mail -dot- cognos -dot- com> wrote in
bit.listserv.techwr-l:
>In journalism, "-30-" signifies the end of the text. I believe it is
>simply a convention.
In the pre-word processing days -30- was necessary to tell the typesetter that
the end was the end with no missing pages. Today it tells that the file was not
truncated.
(I knew that journalism class I had to take would come in handy some day.)
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