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From: shannon@sun.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Two process communication programs
Message-ID: <21075@sun.uucp>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 03:29:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: sun.21075
Posted: Mon Jun 15 03:29:33 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jun-87 01:26:53 EDT
References: <651@vixie.UUCP> <140@fesk.UUCP> <655@vixie.UUCP>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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Summary: I did it

In article <655@vixie.UUCP>, paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) writes:
> The real issues for me are: (1) why was ^A/^P added at all?  It's useless!

I put ^A and ^P in the original version of tip I wrote many, many years
ago.  ^A is there because I used tip to talk to a system that required
all uppercase commands, but would let me edit files with mixed case, and
the terminal I used didn't have a case lock.  ^P was there so I could
send things like ^A through to the other end; extremely useful when
cascading tip's.

					Bill Shannon