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From: albaugh@dms.UUCP (Mike Albaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns)
Message-ID: <550@dms.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 18:00:47 GMT
References: <4457@obiwan.mips.COM>
Organization: Atari Games Inc., Milpitas, CA
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From article <4457@obiwan.mips.COM>, by keith@mips.COM (Keith Garrett):
> while we're bashing keyboards, what about backspace and delete. i don't
> understand why the default for most systems is to use the delete key as a
> backspace key when there is a perfectly good backspace key on the keyboard.

	Gee, I always wondered why a lot of systems use backspace to delete
a character when there is a perfectly good delete key on the keyboard.

	A much more serious complaint is with terminal emulators which will
map the delete to backspace (or vice-versa) but do so using the ascii, rather
than scancode (which I know from other capabilities they have access to), so
I have two or three ways to get one code, but _no_ way to get the other :-(

> -- 
> Keith Garrett        "This is *MY* opinion, OBVIOUSLY"
> UUCP: keith@mips.com  or  {ames,decwrl,prls}!mips!keith
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| Mike Albaugh (albaugh@dms.UUCP || {...decwrl!turtlevax!}weitek!dms!albaugh)
| Atari Games Corp (Arcade Games, no relation to the makers of the ST)
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