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I learnt something today - thanks. I’ve never seen a Unix system configured like that, in over 25 years of doing this!
by goatinaboat 7y ago
I learnt something today - thanks. I’ve never seen a Unix system configured like that, in over 25 years of doing this!
- m463 7y agothank goodness. I remember it was common that the login screen on a terminal would be configured for # as backspace while backspace would actually DO a backspace but be entered into the buffer. I suspect it was a remnant of hardcopy terminals
- gumby 7y agoThat system was inherited from Multics, but the limited number of interactive computers in those days were primarily used from printing terminals which couldn’t actually erase a character so all of them had some such facility.