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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: backspace now broken 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Mar 95 14:32:29 +1100."
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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 21:30:09 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> The backspace key is now mapped to ^? by default, breaking 3 years of
> 386BSD-FreeBSD tradition and 13 years of <deleted> tradition.

Hmmmm.  But it brings back many years of BSD and v7 tradition!

I remember when it was ALWAYS DEL on the V7 derived 68K unices (Fortune,
Callan, Wicat, Charles River, etc..).  I think there are different views
of "tradition", Bruce! :-)

I endorse this change!

					Jordan