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Re: [MiNT] GEM edit field question

To: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com
Subject: Re: [MiNT] GEM edit field question
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:13:02 +0200
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evan@coolrunningconcepts.com writes:

>> The original tty kill character in UNIX was @.
>
> No it wasn't.  Its always been the DEL character, which often shows up 
> as ^@.

You are mistaken.  DEL has been the original INTR character.

>  I even have an AT&T 3B2 machine running SysVr3.1 (the class of machine
> that SysVr4 was written on) and its set to DEL, not @.

SVr3 is too modern for such a thing.  Unix is much older.

Andreas.

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- [MiNT] GEM edit field question
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- Re: [MiNT] GEM edit field question
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- Re: [MiNT] GEM edit field question
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