"upper rail" -- not in OED2

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Jan 12 15:07:16 UTC 2006


Referring to caret (^):

In the telecommunication circles of the press industry.
Ask any AP, Reuters, or AFP technician.
It is, however, old school. It was a control character for 56 baud
baudot and 7-bit ASCII. Speedy, no?

 > By whom, in what context?

 >> At 1/11/2006 09:37 AM, mfeldhandler wrote:
 >>> ^ is also called an upper rail.



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