Re: Mysterious key problem with the character @

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From: Jean-Pierre Radley
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 05:17

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In article <1993Nov12.035512.4842@leland.stanford.edu>,
Dave Eisen <dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>In article <rick.753011735@digibd> rick@digibd.digibd.com (Rick Richardson) writes:
>>
>>BTW, I'll bet 99% of the known Unix universe uses these choices:
>>	erase	^h
>>	kill	^u
>>	intr	^c
>
>Nope. SCO defaults to intr set Del. I think this is fairly
>standard for SysVish Unices. I have no idea why anyone would
>prefer this to ^C. 

I note that hitting the DELete key requires dynes from one of my fingers,
while composing ^C requires exertion from two of my fingers.
-- 
Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   XC custodian   jpr@jpr.com   CIS: 72160.1341

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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Subject: Re: Mysterious key problem with the character @
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