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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: csh backspace 
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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 23:51:17 EST, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

> Is there a simple way to get the backspace key to work right for
> the default root shell?  That is CSH, right?

In your .cshrc, add:

	stty erase ^H

The "^" and the "H" can be two distinct characters; you needn't try to
get clever about storing a control character in your .cshrc file.

See the stty(1) manual page for more details.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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