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- From: edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds)
- Subject: Backspace key (was: Good comm program?)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.003347.25771@cs.ubc.ca>
- Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- References: <711753409.F00056@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 00:33:47 GMT
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- Thomas.Mcwilliams@f42.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Thomas Mcwilliams) wrote:
- >However, all that doesn't change the reality of what we have now.
- >What I propose to do is add the code to allow the interpretation of
- >the <Delete> character be settable at the command line or from
- >the init file like the other options. Does this sound ok to you?
- Some way of selecting would be nice. As it currently stands, each
- time I upgrade to a new kernel version, I hack the keyboard driver so
- that the backspace key actually means backspace, as every machine with
- which I regularly communicate (no vaxen) uses backspace as its
- standard, although Suns are arguably schizophrenic about this.
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- Brian Edmonds (MSc CompSci) edmonds@cs.ubc.ca
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