Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-athena.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!mcnc!decvax!mit-athena!dgg From: dgg@mit-athena.ARPA (David G. Grubbs) Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Subject: Re: On posted fix for "saved game bug" Message-ID: <241@mit-athena.ARPA> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 11:47:45 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-athe.241 Posted: Fri Aug 10 11:47:45 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 01:11:42 EDT References: <3931@fortune.UUCP>, <159@wjvax.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Project Athena, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 13 I would like to point out that the individual who claims that ^@ is produced by striking- is using a brain-damaged terminal. The way to produce ^@ (or -@) is to hold the control key down and press an @. This is usually done by holding down the SHIFT key and pressing the "2" key, though older style terminals have the @ on some other key. In any case, - is not an ASCII character. It is a stupid design decision on the part of some terminal manufacturers (like DEC -- the VT100 is guilty of this stupidity) which results in confusion between the ASCII character set (which is rationally designed), the keyboard layout (which is not) and the contortions through which some terminal designers force us in order to produce certain characters (which is little else than arrogance).