Re: MacPascal Terminal I/O

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Subject: Re: MacPascal Terminal I/O
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 04:15:38 EST
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From: ihnp4!utzoo![email protected]
Sounds like the Mac is all set to stumble over something that the Unix
community learned long ago: if you want line editing (e.g., backspacing
over typos) to work uniformly across all programs, it must be centralized.

Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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