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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: PR#
Message-ID: <8157@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 25 Jun 88 05:43:20 GMT
References: <880624132001.871011@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <880624132001.871011@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA> Mandel@BCO-MULTICS.ARPA (Mark Mandel) writes:
># is Multics's default "erase" character, as @ is its default "kill-line"
>character.

The same is true of UNIX, but
	(a) interactive users almost invariably reset these to control
	characters, typically ^H and ^U.
	(b) mail transfer is done by programs that take care of all
	aspects of the protocol, e.g. SMTP.