From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:24:52 -0500
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> The ASCII standard fortunately solves this one, and you're both wrong.

I'll keep that in mind the next time
I port Plan 9 to a machine that runs
off paper tape.  Thanks.

> > the default should be that backspace is backspace.

Further, you completely missed the point.
dhog claimed that typing a backspace key should
send a backspace character, just like typing an
'a' sends an 'a' character; the ascii
semantics of backspace are not relevant
to that particular claim.

Russ