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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: reset (was Re: why erase/kill echoed by [c]sh in xterm? [386BSD/X386])
Message-ID: <1992Nov8.090438.26069@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <1992Nov7.111935.2731@netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 09:04:38 GMT
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In article <1992Nov7.111935.2731@netcom.com> I <alm@netcom.com> write:
>The new X386 is wonderful! And it is with much trepidation I ask the
^^^
The old too!
>world: why does the erase char print under the 386BSD shell, rather than go
>backwards one char (it does delete a char backwards, it just doesn't
The terminal needs to be reset. The problem is evidently that
..login/.profile is not executed when xinit invokes xterms. One
solution is to run xdm instead. Or a reset/tset can be put in .cshrc
(for interactive shells only! - so the which command doesn't reset the
screen). Unfortunately tset is not part of the distribution yet...
Since I don't like invoking reset even on interactive shells except at
login, I just type reset as the first command after xinit. Is there a
better way? Thanks.
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>