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- From: louis@fammed.wisc.edu (Wayne Louis Hoyenga)
- Subject: Customer difficulty with telnet from PC-NFS version 4.0 from Sun
- Message-ID: <louis.713828554@dfmp1>
- Summary: backspace/delete key mapping is a problem
- Keywords: telnet pc-nfs sun
- Sender: news@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison
- Date: 14 Aug 92 21:42:34 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- I have a gripe with Sun's new version of PC-NFS (4.0). While I find most
- of the new features and the windows support to be nice, I have found one
- change that has made my life somewhat difficult.
-
- In the version of telnet that comes with 4.0, the backspace key is mapped
- to ^? and the del key is mapped to ^h, which is backwards to what it
- was in 3.5, 3.0.1, and any other vt100 terminal emulation that I have
- EVER been in. I checked the documentation to see if this behavior was
- configurable and could find no way to change it.
-
- I called Sun and talked to a Bhavesh Shah. He told me that the new telnet
- was a completely new program (having been ported from a completely different
- source from the ones in the previous versions) and that this
- backspace/delete mapping was normal behavior. When I asked if this were
- configurable, he told me that they were not. I don't know about anyone else
- out there, but it seems obvious to me that such options SHOULD be
- configurable. Especially since this product is not only marketed for use
- with Sun servers. Nor does it seem to me that it should be particularly
- difficult to make configurable. Yes, I would even go so far as to say easy.
- (I HAVE had a good bit of experience in system level programming and design)
-
- Bhavesh then suggested that I add a line in my .profile to change the stty
- settings of the system to conform to this new behavior. If this were my
- only interface to my servers, I would agree that this would be an easy
- solution. However, I am the System Administrator for my company and I am
- just as likely to login to my servers from any one of 20-30 different
- terminals, PCs, and consoles -- all of which, except for the single PC-NFS
- 4.0 machine, has backspace producing a ^h and del producing a ^?. So now
- I am forced to remember to set the stty settings on every machine I login
- to from this one machine (and every one of the machines that I subsequently
- cu, rlogin, and telnet to -- which comes out to an impressive number) or I
- get painfully reminded when I attempt correct a typo. Fortunately, no one
- has suggested that I not make any typos.
-
- If I could figure out a way of doing it without pissing Sun off, I would
- attempt to binary edit the new telnet executable to see if I could change
- this behavior. Maybe someone from Sun will tell me what binary patches I
- could make to (in my opinion) correct the backspace/delete mapping.
-
- Oh, Bhavesh also suggested that I could use the telnet from the old 3.5
- version of PC-NFS if I so desired. If that was an option, I would ask Sun
- to take back thier update and give me back my money -- the new telnet was
- the MAIN reason that I upgraded.
-