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===Common use=== In modern systems, the backspace key is often mapped to the delete character (0x7f in ASCII or Unicode), although the backspace key's function of deleting the character before the cursor remains.<ref name="debian">{{cite web | title=9.8 Keyboard configuration | work=Debian Policy Manual | url=http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.8 | access-date=2007-07-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310144541/http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.8 | archive-date=2016-03-10 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In computers, backspace can also delete a preceding [[newline]] character, something generally inapplicable to typewriters. The backspace key is commonly used to go back a page or up one level in graphical web or file browsers.
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