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Date:      Sat, 4 Mar 95 14:07:49 MST
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        smace@metal-mail.neosoft.com (Scott Mace)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: backspace broken in ctm 0420?
Message-ID:  <9503042107.AA10244@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503040545.WAA00206@metal.ops.neosoft.com> from "Scott Mace" at Mar 3, 95 10:45:53 pm

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> I just built a kernel with sources from ctm cvs-cur.0420 and it appears
> that backspace = del = 0x7f .  Shouldn't backspace be 0x08  not 0x7f?  

Only on computer terminals which are used for editing.

I hope to eventully narrow it down to the '0' and '1' keys being the
only ones that generate unique keycodes, but I sill have yet to see
a clear proposal from anyone regarding bit-stuffing the input stream
so we can find character boundries and/or determine end of line.

The thing I don't like is that the characters still come out lower case
when I turn off caps lock.  Making all characters come out the same case
regardless of modifier keys is the next logical step in reducing the
set of keycodes a newbie must memorize.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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