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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:33:30 -0600
From: Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>
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I don't care about religion - the important thing is that
<delete-previous-character> is easily configured for both warring
factions.

Ask the man on the street - I'll bet 99.99% of persons who use a
keyboard will reach for the key that says "Backspace" when they make a
one-key typo, and not go hunting for "Delete".

I use a Win32 desktop system to talk to all the systems where I work,
and don't want to context switch to Del-for-backspace if I happen to be
in a certain window.