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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:35:08 GMT."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:40:42 -0500
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> To delete n characters, obviously, you sound BS^n DEL^n, and certainly
> not (BS DEL)^n.

I think you mean BS * n followed by DEL * n.  You want repitition, not
exponentiation (which would be meaningless, I think).  The operation in
this context is non-distributive, though.

> There may have been additional meanings to DEL, but the only one I
> know of is as part of a BS DEL sequenc.e.

Is this one of those, ``well, people are still posting about this
subject, therefore I feel no need to worry about its topicality...''
things?

Surely there are more important things to worry about, like getting
the Atari 2600 simulator working....

	- Dan C.