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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!castle.ed.ac.uk!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Repeat of XFree question References: <11OCT93.08302892@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> <CEqIuz.8EE@festival.ed.ac.uk> <12OCT93.04524383@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> Message-ID: <CEsG5r.CM5@festival.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon) Organization: University of Edinburgh Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 14:27:27 GMT Lines: 17 In article <12OCT93.04524383@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in writes: >In a previous article, richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: >>To make the characters actually be erased from the screen, you need >>to do "stty echoe". Why this isn't the default I don't know. >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. Did you read the last two lines of my message? -- Richard -- "For thousands of years, [homoeopathic magic] was known to the sorcerors of ancient India, Babylon and Egypt, as well as of Greece and Rome, and at this day it is still resorted to by cunning and malignant savages in Australia, Africa and Scotland." - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough