Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 9:51:09 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com, wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backspace now broken (proposal) Message-ID: <9503071651.AA24799@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199503071243.WAA15787@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 7, 95 10:43:46 pm
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> > >>The default environment as provided by the kernel and sh(1) in > >>single-user mode should not require the presence of any dot files for > >>correct operation. For that matter, this should be true in general. > > >Amen. Now who's going to change CERASE from 0177 to 010? > > I don't think CERASE should change, only the default erase character > for the console. Changing it centrally would annoy anyone who logs > in from somewhere else end depends on the current default. But make anyone dialing in from another FreeBSD (or Linux) machine or any other PC very happy. The only failure is mode is for DEC terminals and emulations from companies other than Wyse, which has a Backspace there for everything but the poorly selling Wyse 75. You could probably make an argument the other way for people using TIP on a Sun console going the other direction. Note also that gettydefs allows you to change this on a per callin line basis anyway. The fact that there are two standards means that you will be screwing someone either way, but if you have to screw someone, it might as well not be another FreeBSD user. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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