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- From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
- Subject: Re: Telix 3.15 question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.111044.735@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
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- Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
- References: <GOROKHO1.92Nov6162630@husc10.harvard.edu> <v|#@byu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:10:44 GMT
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- In article <v|#@byu.edu> haymoree@bones (Edward Haymore) writes:
- >: > Is there any way to make Telix move cursor backward without
- >: > erasing character when it gets Backspace (ASCII 8) from host? This
- >:
- >: I have not used Telix for a while (switched to Telemate) but the
- >: generic solution is to set "Destructive Backspace" to No (in some packages
- >: it is called "Backspace sends DEL", that should be Yes )
- >:
- >: Zhenya Gorokhovsky
- >: gorokho1@husc.harvard.edu
- >
- >You're correct -- that takes care of it. Now does anyone know how to make
- >this option _stay_ no when I run the program the next time? (And no,
- >"Write setup to disk" doesn't do it.)
-
- It works in my system...perhaps exiting the "terminal options" box
- using return instead of esc would do the trick. If that doesn't help,
- manually edit TELIX.CFG, an ASCII text file. Close to the end there
- is a line reading
-
- swapbs=0
-
- where 0 = don't swap outgoing backspace (ascii 8) with del (ascii 127)
- 1 = swap
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