On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 15:16, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> That CP/M manual also has a list of control characters, page 20 of 26. > Ctrl-L and Ctrl-Z I understand. Ctrl-C is ‘system reboot’. Seems a bit > severe. At least the Break key was out on a corner on the BBC Micro, > Sun's keyboards, etc. > Yes... the same place the Commodore 64 put backspace. My muscle memory sometimes hit Break when I just wanted to correct a typo. I sometimes think the same about the default tty signal mapping of Ctrl-\ for SIGQUIT -- the two keys appear next to either other on this keyboard, so is easy for e.g. a cat to type (or even a mis-typed Ctrl-Z undo attempt). Tim. */ -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
