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From: rlammers@nostromo.physik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Ralf Lammers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: [NetBSD-0.9] Backspace problem^H^H^H
Date: 25 Jul 1994 07:38:13 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Physik, Universitaet Osnabrueck, Germany
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Message-ID: <30vq55$g70@deimos.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>
References: <3031c2$cvr@dopey.cc.utexas.edu> <30il9g$cfd@dopey.cc.utexas.edu>
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In article <30il9g$cfd@dopey.cc.utexas.edu>,
Vax <vax@dopey.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>A similar script, which reads a unix file pattern, and attempts to
>remove those files, showed a curious behaviour.  Although the
>^H's showed up when hitting backspace,  when removing the inputted
>file pattern, it treated it as though the backspaces had properly
>erased the preceeding character.

Try 'stty echoe'.  This will tell the terminal driver not only to
delete a character in the input buffer but also from the screen.

Ralf
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