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To: Wayne Cuddy <wcuddy@crb-web.com>
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Subject: Re: backspace does not delete previous character
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From: Norbert Koch <nk@LF.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 07:44:19 +0200
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Wayne Cuddy <wcuddy@crb-web.com> writes:

Hi!

> Yes I did and it worked.  However it appears that the value of erase needs to
> be set differently based on the originating hosts.  Are there any slick ways
> to handle these different cases automatically in .profile?

You could check the system type and switch on this, eg

case `uname -s` in
  FreeBSD)
    ...
    ;;
   Linux)
    ...
    ;;
esac

norbert.

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