Delete key

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/24/2014 1:41 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
[...]
> ESC was intended at being the beginning of an escape sequence, never
> designed to stand alone.  As usual, Microsoft corrupted this decades ago in
> their usual ignorance of communications standards.  WordStar displayed
> similar ignorance when it used ctrl-s (XOFF) as cursor control, as did
> Scripsit which I think used ctrl-S to start a search, and the Radio Shack
> Model 12 keyboard had a function key around the numeric keypad that sent
> XOFF.  I don't know how many calls I got from customers with new Model 12s
> and 16s complaining that their Xenix keyboards locked up.

There was also a printer that used XOFF for underline on (or maybe off). 
Imagine the "fun" (FSVO) that ensued when connected via a serial port.  (Or 
maybe it was attached as a local printer on a computer/terminal connected 
via a serial port.)

It was, of course, originally reported to sCC as a filePro bug.  :-)

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Kenneth Brody