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Date:      Fri, 03 Mar 95 23:25:23 -0800
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: backspace now broken 
Message-ID:  <199503040725.XAA06567@netcom10.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Mar 95 21:30:09 PST." <15738.794295009@freefall.cdrom.com> 

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> 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! :-)

How soon they forget.
Fortune had a separate DEL key; the backspace key mapped to
^H.  Also, almost every terminal (remember those?!) in use
atleast until early eighties sent ^H when you presed the
backspace key.  Only recently (in the last year) I gave up
the battle and switched to using ^C and my interrupt char.



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