phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) (12/19/87)
In article <307@cognos.UUCP>, brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) writes:
< In almost every version I used up to and including 3.1, there has
< been a Ctrl-U and Ctrl-W keystroke which is recognized. [For those of
< you who didn't know of or didn't have these features, Ctrl-U erases the
< entire line (similar to ESC, but on the same line) and Ctrl-W erases
< backward to the last non-alphanumeric character].
<
<The following code fragment is identical in both DOS 3.10 and DOS 3.20 -- it
<is located at offset (using DEBUG) 1DB9 in former and 1E96 in the latter.
<
< 3C 17 CMP AL,17
< 74 5E JZ $+60
< 3C 15 CMP AL,15
< 74 51 JZ $+53
I found that this function is present (but often inactivated) in DOS
3.3 as well. The offset is 2119.
--
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"as long as you stand there and bother me"
Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com