Re: McGuffey Readers now available in Tatari Faran!
From: | Kinetic <kinetic_wab@...> |
Date: | Sunday, March 13, 2005, 15:37 |
Sally Caves wrote:
> :) It's a joke, you sill^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HDavid! ;) Teoh started it.
> Remember the old control H in I think it was UNIX? The number of ^Hs
equal
> the number of characters he's backed up over to "erase" the original
> wording. "Attention Deficit" rather than "Immune Deficiency." After
> laughing uproariously, I had to copy him, of course. :) Sorry, it was
> funnier unexplained!
Yeah, though I have noticed on this list that the number of "^H"s doesn't
always correspond to the appropriate number of characters to delete!
There is of course also "^W", which deletes the entire word, in case
you're a lazy basta^W^W^Wtoo busy to type all the individual deletes. :-)
IB.