From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 23:41:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AD514F37 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 23:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10fHqP-000OE4-0B; Thu, 6 May 1999 06:41:17 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id HAA01846; Thu, 6 May 1999 07:40:46 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA01891; Thu, 6 May 1999 07:40:38 +0100 Message-ID: <37313921.D0BD89D8@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 07:39:29 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Pazarena Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console backspace ^H References: <9905051753.aa04132@dick.ccstores.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Pazarena wrote: > > I rlogin into my FreeBSD machine, and the default shell > can't seem to figure out that I want to backspace and all it > does is echo back '^H'. > > If I use the bash shell, backspace works as I expect it. > > What do I have to do to get the default shell to *also* perform > a backspace instead of an echo of ^H > ? ``stty erase ^H'', where ``^H'' is typed by hitting the backspace key. HTH > TIA > > -- > Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@ccstores.com > http://www.qcislands.net/paz > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message