Re: How do I output "quotes"

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"Stefan Berglund" <keepit@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:34:14 +0000 (UTC), erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx (J
> French) wrote: in <439fe66a.430323287@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:13:42 -0800, "Karl E. Peterson"
>> <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> J French wrote:
>>>> To be honest I can't see any reason why MS introduced '&'
>>>> - it is a nasty construct, alien to BASIC and can disguize typing
>>>> errors
>>>
>>> Why, *how else* might they have rolled out ETC in VB4, without it???
>>
>> ETC ?
>>
>> You've lost me Karl, could you explain
>> (BTW I've just ported your crafty ForceFore to Delphi - with credit
>> of course)
>
> A guess would be edit then continue but I'm not an expert on
> microsoft history.

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