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What command is ola^ ?
by maest 6y ago
What command is ola^ ?
- arcticbull 6y ago"scamola" -- as in, scam. ^W implies closing the window and starting over.
- kgermino 6y ago^W (control W) is actually delete the last word in Unix systems.
- arcticbull 6y agooof, face-palm for me.
- sbierwagen 6y agoAnd ^H is ASCII control character BACKSPACE. Back in the day, the ^H actually happened, accidentally. From jwz: >Most people who understand what ^H means must have some sense that it is somehow the same as "backspace", right? Well, what would happen is, someone is typing on a dumb terminal that wasn't configured right, and as they typed backspace, that character would go up to the server, not be interpreted as "delete the previous character", and would be dutifully echoed back to the tty. The tty would then itself interpret that as "delete the previous character on the screen." So the person typing thought the characters were gone, but oh no no. https://anon.to/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2004/03/the-unfrozen-caveman-hacker-show/ https://anon.to/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2004/03/the-unfroz...
- jjnoakes 6y ago^W is delete-word
- sbierwagen 6y agoI believe koolba was perhaps referencing Payola, the now-illegal practice of paying a radio station to play a song repeatedly, thus manufacturing a "hit". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola There are many payola-adjacent business practices in the pharmaceutical industry, not all of which are currently illegal.
- koolba 6y agoHa! No, by scamola I meant a regular scam, just scammier.