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altmode en · NOUN
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(historical) An escape character used as a data terminator in certain systems, sometimes displayed on screen as a dollar sign.
The dollar sign is preferable since the altmode is a non-printing character.
1971, Technical Bulletin, number 133, page 2:The altmode acts as a terminator for each element of data.
1973, Madeline M. Henderson, United States. Federal Library Committee, Interactive Bibliographic Systems: Proceedings... (page 60)
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