From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 13:33:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA28290 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:33:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA28285 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:33:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA28669; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:18:54 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703262118.OAA28669@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H To: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:18:54 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk In-Reply-To: from "Bob Bishop" at Mar 26, 97 10:55:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >The ASCII DEL (0x7f) is an artifact of terminal devices which sent > >^H for cursor left, ^J for cursor down, ^K for cursor up, and ^L for > >cursor right. > > All 1's as DEL is an artefact of paper tape since the days of 5-hole. See > ITU/T Alphabet no. 2, aka ITA or Baudot code. Predates electronic digital > computers somewhat. Yes, of course. Having a key for it on display terminals is what I meant, not it's origin or the reason all bits are lit. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.