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Date:      Mon, 15 May 1995 11:46:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        terry@cs.weber.edu, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/407: Odd tset -I behaviour, termcap says xterm kb=^H
Message-ID:  <199505151846.LAA17457@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <9505151842.AA18796@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at May 15, 95 02:42:30 pm

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> > Of course, this isn't recommended, since in principle, the key should
> > send the ASCII kvalue that its keycap label implies it sends.
> 
> Of course, not all keyboards are the same.  My LK-401 has a keycap
> labeled
>    ___
>   / X|
>   \__|
> 
> and I defy you to state definitively that this symbol implies any
> ASCII code at all.  DEC being typically obnoxious decided to make it
> send BS; I use this magic to make it send something sensible:

It should send an 'X' of course :-)

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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