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- From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.103355.1393@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 10:33:55 GMT
- References: <memo.597624@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
- Lines: 18
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- In article <memo.597624@cix.compulink.co.uk> lorcan@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >In article <1992Aug27.083907.25862@rtf.bt.co.uk> duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
- >(Andy Duplain) writes:
- >
- >>The backspace/delete cock-up effects you when using an editor,
- >>regardless of whether the editor was invoked from CLI or DeskTop.
- >
- >What cockup? The Backspace key generates the backspace character and the
- >Delete key generates the Delete character. It's up to the applications
- >to respond to these ACSII codes as they see fit - it's nothing to do
- >with the OS. In this here copy of SrcEdit when I press the Backspace key
- >it deletes the character to the left of the caret. QED.
-
- Good, perhaps I could hack into TWIN to get it to act likewise.
-
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- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
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