Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 9 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.