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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with EtherExpress card and Meta-key
Date: 25 Sep 1996 21:36:33 +0100
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Frank Hohenschuh (1hohens@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de) wrote:
: - I would like to use Emacs (in console mode, not with X) with the
:   left ALT-key as the Sun Meta-key, and "backspace" instead of "del".
:   
:   On my Linux system at home, I could change the "default.keytab" file,
:   but I haven't found a similar file under BSD. The "german-iso..."
:   file doesn't seem to be right.

: Does anyone know how to fix these problems?

Edit the file - it's ascii.  I don't know why these files are "wrong"...
I've had problems with BS/Delete under unix for as long as I can remember.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....