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In-Reply-To: <199703251021.KAA28724@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Mar 25, 97 10:21:57 am"
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In reply to Brian Somers who wrote:

*SIGH*, why does this come up again and again??
> 
> The DEL key would send whatever the Backspace key doesn't.
> 
> (I'd prefer BS=^?, DEL=^h)

BS = BACKSPACE = 0x08
DEL = DELETE = 0x7f

Why on earth should they be reversed contradicting their names ??

Now, BSD then has a funny old behavior of having the std erase one
char set to 0x7f, but thats only for hysterical reasons...

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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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