Thread: Control-C, etc
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Old 5th Jun 2021, 1:19 pm   #3
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Default Re: Control-C, etc

They are old Windows shortcuts. They may have been influenced by the Wordstar word processor under CP/M and DOS. (Posts crossed.)

They are certainly not universal commands. Ctrl-C is a process interrupt command on many OSs including Linux.
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