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The Meta key is an abstraction of the X Window System which is usually alt on most systems. However some systems may not posses such a key. Apple Macintoshes use the Apple key instead, for example. On Sun Type 4 keyboards the Meta key is the diamond shape key next to the alt key (not the alt key). Local X implementation should be consulted for further clarification. In this book we will simply refer to the Meta key.

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...together.

Even though we deal with UNIX and C nearly all the forthcoming discussions are applicable to MSDOS and other operating systems

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