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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FBSD 2.0-SNAP: Backspace ASCII code
Date: 6 Feb 1995 03:45:36 -0000
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Mike Digdon (digdon@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca) wrote:
: I'm pretty annoyed by the fact that FBSD is mapping my backspace key to ^H,
: and everything wants to see ^?.  I need to do a stty erase ^H to fix this,
: but if I use kermit to connect anywhere, it stops working.  Same as when I
: su to root.

: Is there any way to make the backspace key be ^? instead of ^H?

man kbdcontrol.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....