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From: rmshair@uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: How to get BACKSPACE to work?
Date: 13 Dec 1995 08:14:16 GMT
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jtomich@IntNet.net (Jeff Tomich) writes:
>When I'm at my shell prompt or at the ftp prompt the backspace doesn't
>work. How do I set key to make the backspace work.
The DEC VMS and Unix worlds have never quite agreed on what the backspace character should be.
Assuming that you're talking to a Unix box,
perhaps the easiest thing to do is to tell Kermit to use a Unix backspace.
In C-Kermit for OS/2 I do that with
set key \127 \8
in my ckermod.ini file, where 127 is the scancode of the PC backspace key,
and 8 is the ASCII backspace character, also called ^H.
I know this can be done in MS-Kermit for DOS. Don't know about others.
Alternatively you can tell Unix to use the VMS backspace character, DEL, with
the Unix command
stty erase "<---press the backspace key instead of the "
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Bob Shair Open Systems Consultant
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Champaign, IL 61821 217/356-2684