Re: Backspace, Delete and other keys

["Aaron J. Grier" <agrier%poofygoof.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:07:51PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> But in general, DEC *never* used BS to delete characters, and none of
> their terminals sent that code when you used the canonical key to
> delete to the left.
> 
> The VT100 indeed had a backspace key, but I don't think any other of
> their terminals even had that (hmm, maybe the LA120, but I'm not
> entirely sure).

just checked the decwriter III here at work, and it has both "back
space" and "delete" keys, producing 0x08 and 0x7f, and located above and
to the right of the "return" key, respectively. 

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