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- From: rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
- Subject: Re: 700/RX delete key - odd behaviour
- Sender: news@waterloo.hp.com (NetNews)
- Message-ID: <BtD7M2.AqG@waterloo.hp.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:13:13 GMT
- References: <22982@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
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- Mario Obejas (mobej@thaad-1g%hac2arpa.hac.com) wrote:
- : have an odd behaviour when the delete key is used. Specifically, the
- : char being deleted is replaced with an unprintable char - looks like a cursor
- : sized checkerboard. Anybody seen this one? Are we missing a patch?
-
- Hmm.. Seems to me you need an 'stty erase ^?' so that DEL is your erase
- character. HP-UX mostly (in my limited experience) has erase set to BS (^H).
- Are your .profile and other login control files correctly set up and used?
-
- The X-terminal is only doing what its keyboard map is telling it to do.
- and doing the 'stty' above nicely turns the printed DEL into a backspace.
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- Regards,
-
- Ted Rypma
- HP Panacom Division
-