uucp VS 4.2 - (nf)
rpw3 at fortune.UUCP
rpw3 at fortune.UUCP
Thu Mar 29 19:02:36 AEST 1984
#R:allegra:-236500:fortune:2000008:000:739
fortune!rpw3 Mar 28 20:20:00 1984
While I was very accustomed to ^U as a line kill from my TOPS-10 days,
I painfully made the transition to ^X because everybody yelled at me:
"^U is ASCII <NAK> (negative acknowledeg -- please re-send);
you should use ^X which is ASCII <CAN> (cancel message)."
Now of course, I DEPEND on our system defaulting to ^X, and my fingers
have a new groove in them.
"Plus ca change, plus le meme chose..."
\
\
I would have sent the NAPLPS
characters for the cidilla and
the accent-circumflex, except
nobody (but us?) speaks NAPLPS.
Rob Warnock
UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3
DDD: (415)595-8444
USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065
More information about the Comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes
mailing list