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- From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
- Subject: Re: Telix 3.15 question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.091133.3580@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: vipunen.hut.fi
- Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
- References: <GOROKHO1.92Nov6162630@husc10.harvard.edu> <v|#@byu.edu> <1992Nov9.204342.25092@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:11:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.204342.25092@vpnet.chi.il.us> cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka) writes:
- > haymoree@bones (Edward Haymore) writes:
- >>: it is called "Backspace sends DEL", that should be Yes )
- >>
- >>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.)
- >
- >This is one of the (several) confusing "features" in Telix. You have
- >set this in the "Terminal Options" screen, right? Well, if you use
- >the dialing directory there is _another_ setting which overrides
- >this. It's good, in that you can have BS destructive for some systems
- >but not others -- but it's still _very_ confusing.
- >
- >Also, I think some versions of Telix have a bug which prevents the "BS
- >Destructive" selection in the Terminal Options menu from EVER being written
- >to disk... The Dialing Directory option works, though.
-
- If all else fails, you can 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
- --
- tsand@vipunen.hut.fi
- TEX disconnects, dial again for another session.
- D;+vC)?iH%"
- NO.CARRIER
-