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Eric Fischer (er...@fudge.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: Kirk Is <kis...@allegro.cs.tufts.edu> wrote:

: > What did does use, all those ctrl-insert variants?  What about for copy?

: I assume you mean DOS?  If so, it doesn't have any notion of a
: clipboard, so the keys for copying and pasting can be whatever
: any programmer decides is a good key to use.

: There is a minimal (and crummy) interface for copying portions
: of the previously typed line into the current one, which I think
: goes like this:

[snip]

: It's sort of like the "alter" command from SOS, which Microsoft copied
: forward into Extended BASIC and EDIT-80, but with even fewer features
: and worse feedback.

Thank heavens for Doskey /insert


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