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zik
on Sept 6, 2023
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Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?
^H used to be a common idiom back in the usenet news days
sytringy05
on Sept 7, 2023
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It’s from the original borne / korn shell in Unix. Ctrl H was backspace, but the pc keyboards would send a different control character. you often had to map the backspace on the pc keyboard to make it work properly. Set -o or something like that.
euroderf
on Sept 8, 2023
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And then it got even worse when you mixed in X Windows. "Delete" or something.
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