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Subject: Re: backspace and delete keys behavior
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Mariano Guadagnini wrote:

>Hi guys, I am new to Freebsd (after years of linux) and, althought system 
>installation and configuration was quite seamlessly, I've an issue with the 
>delete key of my keyboard (101 keys us layout): In xterm, the backspace key 
>works ok, but when I press del, it prints the "~" character, instead of  
>deleting .  I have read it has something to do with keyboard layout config, 
>but I couldn't find out how to fix it. So, any ideas?
>
>Thanks, (and forgive my poor english)
>
>
>Mariano Guadagnini
>Argentina
>  
>

what does:

 >echo $TERM

    give you?

It could possibly be the wrong terminal type --- try the following
at the CLI (depending on which shell)...

csh/tcsh:

    $setenv TERM xterm-color

sh/bash:

    #TERM=xterm-color
    #export TERM

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey