From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 14: 7:54 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 C8C0415E18 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 14:07:47 -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 10fVMo-000LVT-0B; Thu, 6 May 1999 21:07:38 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id WAA01187; Thu, 6 May 1999 22:06:59 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id WAA00923; Thu, 6 May 1999 22:06:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 22:06:51 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Jim Pazarena , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: console backspace ^H Message-ID: <19990506220650.E255@marder-1> References: <37313921.D0BD89D8@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Fri, May 07, 1999 at 09:00:04AM +1200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 09:00:04AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I personally hate control characters in my .login file - so what I do > is to enter: > > stty erase '^h' > > literally. There are no control characters in the above line. Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize you could do that. > -- > Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. > Twice is coincidence. > Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. > > -- 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