Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> 
>> For the more advanced guessers: why does the ASCII character DEL have 
>> the value 0x7F, and what is its exact meaning?
>>
> 
> "All (7) holes punched".

If you were a student that would be the problematic type of answer, 
because it is totally correct, but does not prove that you understand 
why. Which might mean that the question was badly done...

So why is DEL "all holes punched", and what does it mean? For instance, 
does it mean "delete the previous character", like a backspace?

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