From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 15:52:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC55437B404 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:52:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.20.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775CF43EB2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:52:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from f3z@iprimus.com.au) Received: from elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au (elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.18.41]) by ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gBANqeiB025262 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:52:40 +1100 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: JacobRhoden (by way of JacobRhoden ) Organization: University of Melbourne Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:52:40 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212111052.40010.f3z@iprimus.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 06:46, Jonathan Chen wrote: > It's Linux that's stepping on standards. Their default config is to > have erase=3DDEL. All other UNIX boxen I've used have erase=3DBACKASPCE= =2E > I suspect the PUTTY writers have been heavily influenced by Linux. I myself am going insane in an environment where every second box require= s a different setting (aaaargh!! and stuff). Is there a way to override the l= ocal settings on the Linux/Solaris/etc... ? (Oh, and if you were writing an ssh client, would you default the setting= s to the standard, or to what works on all your machines *grin*) Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message