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  5. From: matthews@wfu.edu (Rick Matthews)
  6. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  7. Subject: Re: Backspace don't work?
  8. Date: 12 Dec 1995 16:37:23 GMT
  9. Organization: Wake Forest University
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  16.  
  17. Jeff Tomich (jtomich@news.IntNet.net) wrote:
  18. : When I'm at my unix shell prompt the backspace doesn't work, although it 
  19. : works fine when I'm in my mail reader, etc...
  20. : 
  21.  
  22. In your startup script (.cshrc, .login, .profile, as the case may be)
  23. try
  24.     stty erase ^H
  25.  
  26. or
  27.  
  28.     stty erase ^"?"
  29.  
  30. One will probably work.  Initially try it from the command line.
  31.  
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