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From: cjdb@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Charles Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS line editing
Message-ID: <1077@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 21:26:22 EST
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1077
Posted: Tue Jan 20 21:26:22 1987
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References: <307@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjdb@sphinx.UUCP (Charles Blair)
Organization: University of Chicago Library Computer Systems
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In article <307@cognos.UUCP> brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) writes:
>
>     I've got a question concerning some of the line editing provided by
>MS-DOS/PC-DOS. 
>
>     In almost every version I used up to and including 3.1, there has
>been a Ctrl-U and Ctrl-W keystroke which is recognized. 
>
>[...]
>     My question is why was this feature left out in some versions of
>DOS (or, why was it included in mine?) I've since looked a little more
>closely at the matter and found that the split is just about half and
>half between haves and have-nots.  Any reasons? Ideas?
>
>     Thanks.


I am, and have always been, a have-not. (I know this, because as a
frequent TOPS-20 user, Ctrl-U is instinctive.) How do I become a have?
(I.e., what's the patch?) I'm running DOS 3.2, so I'll need enough
context to find the code (if in fact I'll be able to apply the patch
at all).


Thanks.







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