Re: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS)

That may have been the origin, but Hazeltine persisted even in later versions of the terminal which implemented later ASCII and had a printing ~ at 126. That's why the comment and associated code is in the terminal driver. In order to print a ~ you had to send it twice. -----Original Message----- From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan Sent: Friday, July 8, 2016 5:17 PM To: Ron Natalie Cc: 'Clem Cole'; 'Random832'; 'TUHS main list' Subject: Re: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Ron Natalie scripsit: Not the terminal's fault. It was just implementing ASCII-63, in which ESC was up by DEL, in the current position of ~. Other terminals did ASCII-67, the current standard. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org A poetical purist named Cowan [that's me] Once put the rest of us dowan. [on xml-dev] "Your verse would be sweeter / If it only had metre And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan." [overpacked line!] --Michael Kay