From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 15:56:37 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 17C5D37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:56:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2917443E4A for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:56:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBANuDOg025956; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:56:13 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBANuD9l025955; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:56:13 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:56:13 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: JacobRhoden Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Message-ID: <20021210235613.GA25919@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20021210120315.V9278-100000@moredhel.hayholt.org> <20021210194638.GA24994@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <200212111003.03585.f3z@iprimus.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200212111003.03585.f3z@iprimus.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 [Please don't remove Cc: freebsd-questions..] Jonathan Chen On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:03:03AM +1100, JacobRhoden wrote: > 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=DEL. All other UNIX boxen I've used have erase=BACKASPCE. > > I suspect the PUTTY writers have been heavily influenced by Linux. > > I myself am going insane in an environment where every second box requires a > different setting (aaaargh!! and stuff). Is there a way to override the local > settings on the Linux/Solaris/etc... ? Most shells honour /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login. I tend to add the following line on these files: stty erase '^h' Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message