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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [HyperTADS] Can't Quit
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"Uli Kusterer" <witness@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:witness-01C365.22263513062002@news.t-online.com...
> Maybe because "Guten Abend" (sometimes shortened to just "Abend" by lazy
> folks) means "good night" in German? Or because it has "END" in it,
> andcan be written in hexa-decimal?

There's an N in hexadecimal?

It's a contraction of ABnormal END as I recall; it's also what NetWare does
when something goes horribly wrong.

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