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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!t-piersh
- From: t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken)
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.055746.11315@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 05:57:46 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA 98052
- References: <memo.597624@cix.compulink.co.uk> <10383@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
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- In article <10383@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> sproven@cs.strath.ac.uk (Simon B Proven IE91) writes:
- >In article <memo.597624@cix.compulink.co.uk> lorcan@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >Those who think Unix gets it right talk rubbish - if I use backspace in
- >many places (usually to a remote machine) then I get ^H and/or ^? depending
- >on which setup I'm logged on to. Hardly standardised, or easy to use,
- >since I can never tell what it's going to be. At least the machines here
- >(Sparcstation ELCs) use both keys properly on the console. BOTH for
- >delete left, BTW - in vi anyway.
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- For God's sake RTFM!
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- >
- >>Lorcan
- >
- >mad@bike
-
- Piers.
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