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From: matthews@wfu.edu (Rick Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Backspace don't work?
Date: 12 Dec 1995 16:37:23 GMT
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Jeff Tomich (jtomich@news.IntNet.net) wrote:
: When I'm at my unix shell prompt the backspace doesn't work, although it
: works fine when I'm in my mail reader, etc...
:
In your startup script (.cshrc, .login, .profile, as the case may be)
try
stty erase ^H
or
stty erase ^"?"
One will probably work. Initially try it from the command line.
--
Rick Matthews matthews@wfu.edu Ham radio:
Wake Forest University 910-759-5340 (Voice) WA4GSP
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