Re: [9fans] An idiot question

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>]

your keyboard may be labled strangly.  if you have a
101-key keyboard, the delete key should be in the lower
left in the set of six above the arrow keys to the right
of the querty layout.  

here's a picture
	http://horstmann.com/bigj/help/windows/keyboard.gif

if that doesn't work, perhaps backspace
and delete have been swapped?

in all cases <compose>+X007f will get you an according-to-hoyle
delete.  to type this double-vulcan nerve pinch on a pc style
keyboard, hold down <alt><shift>X at the same time then
type the caracters '0' '0' '7' 'f'.  (no need to sacrifice a goat.  a chicken
will do.)  this is 007f is the unicode codepoint which corrisponds
to <del>.  i don't know what <compose> maps to on non-pc
keyboards.

- erik