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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Info - go back a screen.
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 12:18:05 -0800
Organization: Alcyone Systems
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Adoxa wrote:

>      It's mentioned in the Info help file that DEL is used to go back a
>      screen. Pressing Backspace, however, just brings up the help screen,
>      presumably due to C-h. C-Backspace does go back a page, though. Is
>      this normal behaviour?

Sounds like it.  Backspace (BS, 0x08) and delete (DEL, 0x7f) are not the
same ASCII character.

>      And while I'm here, how do you list files that don't have an
>      extension?

You mean in DOS?

    DIR *.

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