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To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: some pcvt quirks 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jul 95 23:38:58 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 23:50:26 -0700
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>Take this as a counter personal arguement, DEC later relized there
>mistake and corrected this.  All vt200 series and latter terminals
>can be setup to generate either ^H or ^? for that key.  DEC corrected
>there mistake, perhaps you should too.

   Yes, but to this day RT-11, RSTS/E, RSX, and VMS still only take DEL. IMO,
if you're going to emulate a DEC terminal, you should do DEC-ish things.

-DG