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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:22:43 -0000, He...@there.com (Adrian Thompson)
wrote:

>Hi.
>Can anyone out there tell me why Windows uses Ctrl-V as a keyboard 
>shortcut for Paste? I've just been asked by one fo the children here, and 
>I realised I have no idea!

Other posters have pointed out that it's geographically related to
Ctrl-X and Ctrl-C, but they've missed that Windows (and the Mac, yeah,
yeah) use Ctrl-X for 'cut' because it's the ASCII 'CAN' (cancel)
character, and has been used for discarding a line of typed input for
about as long as CR (Ctrl-M, carriage return) has been used to terminate
a line of typed input.  (ie, only about twenty years actually)

>Adrian Thompson
>Laisterdyke GM Middle School
>IT Technician

I bet I'm the only geezer here who knows that Laisterdyke is an early
19th century corruption of Lister Dyke...
-- 
David Spencer
Logica BT OMC Team, Martlesham MLB-2
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