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Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of restaurant receipts?

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Tue, 09 August 2011 19:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of restaurant receipts?
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> Quite possibly it is just a binary buffer dump, possibly due to a bug in the cash register software, or was put in for debugging.

Considering that it appears in exactly the same place on every resto 
receipt I got in Quebec, from many different restos, that would be a heck 
of a bug.

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John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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