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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:22:21 GMT
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org>
Cc:        brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, brian@utell.co.uk, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Backspace = ^H
Message-ID:  <l03020903af5dfece09e9@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To: <199703251409.OAA00279@shift.lan.awfulhak.org>
References:  Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:37:46 %2B0100." <199703251238.NAA10221@ravenock.cybercity.dk>

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At 2:09 pm -0000 25/3/97, Brian Somers wrote:
>[...]
>I now agree that 0x08 is the right thing to send for a BS, so
>we need to have the default erase as 0x08 and remove the stty
>from /.profile and /root/.profile (a link anyway).

Well, once upon a time the default erase used to be #
This isn't entirely stupid because on an unfamiliar keyboard you don't have
to wonder what code the delete key is generating.


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