Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewsd!bamford From: bamford@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (harold.e.bamford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: the shform program Message-ID: <12494@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Jan 90 22:46:13 GMT References: <2413@ttardis.UUCP> Reply-To: bamford@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (harold.e.bamford,ihp,) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 14 In article <2413@ttardis.UUCP> rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes: >Since not all terminals have a line feed key (ie: \n), I would >like to be able to have the shform program (and the associated >form() and menu() functions accept return (ie: \r) as an >alternative to line feed, aka Enter (ie: \n). Not a good idea as \r and \n have different meanings in shform. I suggest that you just use ^J (control J) instead of linefeed. x x x x x