Hi, > Stan was the only one to publicly post his vote. Most people wrote me > privately, with the vote being about 15 to 2 to make destructive backspace > the default setting, if not the only option. The standard comment was > generally something like this: Voting only counts when the choices being voted on are valid :) (E.g., if you vote on the earth being flat...) > However, I now do worry about breaking any existing code that might be out > there, if someone is doing something as tricky as Stan might do :-). curses, and similar code, often relies on non-destructive backspaces to move the cursor to the left on a line. For example, to move from row X, column Y, to row X, column Y-3, the cheapest thing to do is send 3 backspaces. I know I have 3000 code that does this ("this" being "optimize serial data transmission"). remember...it doesn't have to be a non-destructive backspace when you're interacting with, say, QueryCalc in some manner other than as a terminal emulator. -- Stan Sieler [log in to unmask] www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.sieler.com * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *