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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:37:14 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        angio@aros.net (Dave Andersen)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kbdcontrol change
Message-ID:  <199602141007.UAA16829@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199602140812.BAA04009@terra.aros.net> from "Dave Andersen" at Feb 14, 96 01:12:21 am

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Dave Andersen stands accused of saying:
> 
>    I got annoyed with kbdcontrol's inability to put returns or tabs in 
> macros (makes it difficult to do multi-line commands. :), so I patched it 
> to handle \ notation..

Not necessarily a bad thing...

>   kbdcontrol -f 1 "cd /\nls\ncd\n"
> works admirably to create a sequence of:
> cd /
> ls
> cd

But what's wrong with "cd /;nls;ncd" ??

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