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Re: [MiNT] GEM edit field question

To: Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] GEM edit field question
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:45:29 +0200
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Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net> writes:

> Is it just a bad design from 1985 when the assumption was the '@' char would
> probably not be used?  Anyone know?  Documented somewhere?

The original tty kill character in UNIX was @.

Andreas.

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