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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:13:26 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" <ugen@netvision.net.il>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: backspace now broken (proposal) 
Message-ID:  <9503062013.AA08687@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.950306143732.ugen@ugen.NetManage.co.il>
References:  <Chameleon.950306143732.ugen@ugen.NetManage.co.il>

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<<On Mon,  6 Mar 95 14:34:47 IST, "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" <ugen@netvision.net.il> said:

>> 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...

The default environment as provided by the kernel and sh(1) in
single-user mode should not require the presence of any dot files for
correct operation.  For that matter, this should be true in general.
People here got it right for 4.3 on a VAXstation; there's no excuse
for broken behavior.

-GAWollman

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