BS/DEL with xterm local & remote

Josef Karthauser joe
Thu Aug 19 09:50:54 BST 1999


On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:21:21AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> mark at dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org said:
> > Hmmm, I wonder if it's always been that way? I've just #'d out the
> > stty line in ~/.cshrc and ~/.profile, rebooted (just to make
> > absolutely sure) and, as you say, BS works as destructive backspace.
> > I've had the same ~/.cshrc since I started FreeBSD at 2.1.5 and I'm
> > sure I added the stty because it was needed, or maybe I just copied
> > the one off my Sun at work, it's that long ago I can't remember. 
> 
> This is my fault.  About a year ago (or more?) I changed syscons so 
> that it selects the erase character based on your current keyboard 
> maps BS value :-)
> 

Ahha!  Anti-beer for you then my friend ;)

Joe
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