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From: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: <control> L
Keywords: How do you use it correctly?
Message-ID: <2448@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 89 09:56:43 GMT
References: <488@sppy00.UUCP>
Reply-To: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
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In article <488@sppy00.UUCP> www@sppy00.UUCP (Victor Shakapopolis) writes:
>I enter the "carrot" sign
>over the 6 on my keyboard, followed by an L.  Is this correct?

You need a actual ^L, which is ASCII character 12, and I think it
needs to be the first character on the line.  If you are using
emacs, type a ^Q and then the ^L.  In vi you can just type ^L
without any "prep" characters.

Douglas Krause                     One yuppy can ruin your whole day.
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