From: edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) Subject: Backspace key (was: Good comm program?) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:33:47 GMT
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