Re: Exclamation marks in alert messages?

Subject: Re: Exclamation marks in alert messages?
From: John Posada <john -at- TDANDW -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:14:01 -0500

Do I understand you to say that the software error and alert messages use !!
and you're replacing them with periods in your documentation?



Geoff Hart (by way of \"Eric J. Ray\" ) wrote:

> I'm editing the error messages and alert messages for some software
> that we'll be producing in English and French. The original text used
> copious amounts of exclamation points (!) in the English, which I've

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