From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 23:30:42 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 2BB6537B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:30:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from copper.americanisp.net (smtp01.mail.amisp.net [216.38.38.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7440643EC2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:30:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdq@kuyarov.org) Received: (qmail 8291 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2002 07:30:28 -0000 Received: from 216-38-40-30.ip.amisp.net (HELO server.home.pk) (216.38.40.30) by 0 with SMTP; 11 Dec 2002 07:30:28 -0000 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:30:33 -0700 From: Peter To: JacobRhoden (by way of JacobRhoden ) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Message-Id: <20021211003033.2906c4ec.fbsdq@kuyarov.org> In-Reply-To: <200212111052.40010.f3z@iprimus.com.au> References: <200212111052.40010.f3z@iprimus.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 10:52:40 +1100 JacobRhoden (by way of 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... ? > > (Oh, and if you were writing an ssh client, would you default the settings 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 > This is the main reason I quit using Putty....I keep it around for emergencies, but I regularly I use the ssh client from ssh.com, a little bigger, but works much better. ---Peter--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message