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From: bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Erase/kill on login
Message-ID: <570004@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 88 02:08:14 GMT
References: <263@stcns3.stc.oz>
Organization: HP SEMC, Cupertino, CA
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System Supervisor (root@stcns3.stc.oz) writes:
> Why those brain-damaged #/@ characters are still used,
> I don't know....  Does ANYONE out there still use them?

Sure.  They're the only characters guaranteed to work while logging in
on nearly any version of Unix.  You can amaze the newer people at work
when you use `@' to correct login mistakes.  (Preserve your Unix Cool.
Use `@' for login goofs.)

Not everyone uses ^U for kill, either.  Being a ksh user who favors
the gmacs style of command editing, I use ^G for my kill character;
^U is usurped as a prefix for counts.

-- bd