From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 17:16:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160708211637.GB32610@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008c01d1d95c$f3f9ad60$dbed0820$@ronnatalie.com>
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Ron Natalie scripsit:
> Hopkins actually had one of the “braindamaged Hazeltines” (leave
> poor tilde alone)
Not the terminal's fault. It was just implementing ASCII-63, in which
ESC was up by DEL, in the current position of ~. Other terminals did
ASCII-67, the current standard.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
A poetical purist named Cowan [that's me]
Once put the rest of us dowan. [on xml-dev]
"Your verse would be sweeter / If it only had metre
And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan." [overpacked line!] --Michael Kay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-08 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-08 14:52 Clem Cole
2016-07-08 14:59 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 15:47 ` Nemo
2016-07-08 16:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 20:29 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 16:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 18:00 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-08 18:23 ` Random832
2016-07-08 20:49 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 21:09 ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-08 21:16 ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-07-08 21:45 ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-09 17:03 ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-10 14:38 ` [TUHS] Slashes Christian Neukirchen
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2016-07-10 1:41 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Norman Wilson
2016-07-10 1:46 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-10 1:52 ` John Cowan
2016-07-12 17:53 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-12 18:05 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-13 9:24 ` Wesley Parish
2016-07-13 10:09 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-10 21:10 ` Sven Mascheck
2016-07-08 17:36 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 11:25 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 13:16 ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 14:06 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-02 0:12 [TUHS] MS-DOS Norman Wilson
2016-07-02 1:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-07 5:02 ` [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-07 13:43 ` Nemo
2016-07-07 14:11 ` John Cowan
2016-07-07 14:18 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-07 23:47 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08 5:40 ` scj
2016-07-08 7:06 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08 11:09 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09 0:03 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-09 14:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09 16:38 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 11:20 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 11:54 ` Nemo
2016-07-11 13:15 ` Joerg Schilling
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