From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 11 1: 5:14 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 2E99937B401 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:05:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80D143EA9 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:05:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a143.otenet.gr [212.205.215.143]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBB94sOs011974; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:05:04 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBB94lxQ067399; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:04:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBB949Nm067393; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:04:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:04:09 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: JacobRhoden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Message-ID: <20021211090409.GA67254@gothmog.gr> References: <200212111052.40010.f3z@iprimus.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <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 2002-12-11 10:52, 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*) Neither. I'd make it easy to configure the client differently, instead :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message