Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!

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From: Dan Strychalski
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:00

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Reader Hannu Rummukainen <hrum...@cc.hut.fi> writes in --

> Since I haven't seen this mentioned in the thread: My understanding is
> that using control-X, control-C and control-V to do cut, copy and paste
> was based on an IBM user interface standard called "CUA".

Now THERE's a question. Does any version of CUA say anything about any
ASCII Ctrl-key combinations?

Dan Strychalski              dski at cameonet, cameo, com, tw (no _x_)

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