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From: lliu@u.washington.edu (Le-Chin Eugene Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [FreeBSD] How can I have the backspace key return DEL?
Date: 5 Jun 1994 19:30:30 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
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Summary: in xterm, how to get backspace return DEL?
Keywords: Backspace, DEL, termcap

Hi there,

   I'm using FreeBSD 1.1 Release. In pc3, the backspace key returns DEL
(\177). I'd like to have the same setting for xterm. I edited termcap
and change kb to \177. It didn't work. In xterm, I still get ^H.
(Actually, the cusor is back as before, but it doesn't erase the last
charactor. By the way, the erase is DEL.) Can anyone help me on this
problem. Thanks.

Eugene Liu