Tips and Tricks: Mass Update

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On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 01:39:28PM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
> ...
> > Takes me back to the days when "word star" was my editor of choice to  
> > write code (Clipper, DBIII, DBIV); one had to know all the shortcuts or  
> > key combinations to be truly productive.  I never did learn the keys for  
> > `vi` except for those most commonly used.
> 
> Didn't Word Star use the ctrl-s key for something?

I believe so, although I've not used WordStar since 1992.

> This wouldn't work well on a serial connection where that's XOFF
> and tells the computer to stop sending.

My best friend changed his password to ^Skullz once at university.  He
couldn't figure out why his account froze after he logged in.  We had a
good laugh about it when I explained flow control to him. :) (We've got
technical parity these days, and have never taken offence either way at any
point.  In fact, he's the one person I can honestly say I've -never- had an
argument with, since 1986.)

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