From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 6 04:36:30 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA03476 for current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 04:36:30 -0800 Received: from dns.netvision.net.il (root@dns.NetVision.net.il [194.90.1.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA03459; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 04:36:17 -0800 Received: from ugen.NetManage.co.il (ugen.netmanage.co.il [192.114.78.165]) by dns.netvision.net.il (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA03639; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 14:35:19 +0200 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 14:34:47 IST From: "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" Subject: Re: backspace now broken (proposal) To: current@FreeBSD.org, me@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Chameleon 4.00-Arm-25, TCP/IP for Windows, NetManage Inc. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk First of all i agree that ^H should be erase,Backspace should produce ^H and normal ppl should not think a single moment about this..Well,if i press A i expect A to be printed but.. >But having to tell new >FreeBSD users that they have to put a 'stty erase ^h' in .login or >.profile of *each and every* user of their system is just plain >unnecessary complication of affairs. Hmm..this can be done by default in default /etc/.cshrc and friends,then those who hate ^H to be erase by default can be happy,and ^H will work... BTW that's the first thing i even do on my systems after installation.. Not only FreeBSD but even SunOS has this problemm... -- -=Ugen J.S.Antsilevich=- NetVision - Israeli Commercial Internet | Learning E-mail: ugen@NetVision.net.il | To Fly. [c] Phone : +972-4-550330 |