Re: @ symbol deleting all preceeding input at command line?

From: Frank Slootweg (this_at_ddress.is.invalid)
Date: 09/21/05 

Date: 21 Sep 2005 17:45:56 GMT

Robert Klute <robert_klute_removethis@hp.com> wrote:
> On 21 Sep 2005 09:30:52 -0700, mkirsch1@rochester.rr.com wrote:
>
> >If I could quote, I would, but then you'd probably go "NetCop" on me
> >anyway and tell me I quoted too little or too much, or I top posted, or
> >I bottom posted... You'd find something wrong and attack me for it.
> >
> >^U is the standard kill character. HP-UX is the only operating system
> >out there that sets it to @ by default. Again, I ask why?
>
> "@" is the default line kill for System V based versions of Unix and is
> defined in the System V Interface Definition. Also, erase is # and intr
> is Del.
>
> Ctl-U is the default for BSD based systems.

  And since the SVID (and XPG) are standards, while BSD is an
implementation, the *standard* is (as I said) '@'.