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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at!not-for-mail From: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Repeat of XFree question Date: 12 Oct 1993 09:03:04 +0100 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria Lines: 20 Message-ID: <29doboINNbus@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> References: <11OCT93.08302892@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> <CEqIuz.8EE@festival.ed.ac.uk> <12OCT93.04524383@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> NNTP-Posting-Host: fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] In article <12OCT93.04524383@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in wrote: -> I have tried the keysym BackSpace=Delete map. -> My problem is not that i am unable to DELETE characters. It is that -> characters that get deleted dont go off the screen: they stay there though -> the machine does not recognize them or parse them. -> e.g I type in "cleare" and delete one character and what is still see on -> the screen is "cleare", with, perhaps, the cursor on the "e". However the -> machine reads it as "clear" and clears the screen. -> On the other hand, when i use the other function (i.e, if i have used ^H for -> delete, then ^?) ERASES the characater from the screen without deleting it, -> so i type "claer", delete three characters, see "cl" and add "ear" and the -> machine responds: "claer^H^H^Hear not known" -> I havent fiddled with the xterm termcap definitions (yet), so i want to -> know what is wrong Try in your .login: stty crt Christoph