From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: Format Directive for delete?!?!?!?!
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 21:14:52 +0000
Message-ID: <35ss4c$46e@tools.near.net>

In article <··········@hearst.cac.psu.edu> ······@akh104.rh.psu.edu (Andrew K. Heller) writes:
>  Whats the format directive for the backspace/delete command?

There's no FORMAT directive for this.  You can try (PRINC #\backspace).
However, this isn't portable, as implementations are not required to
implement #\backspace.  There's no fully portable way to do it.
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Barry Margolin
BBN Internet Services Corp.
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