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From: John Lind <john@starfire.mn.org>
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Subject: Backspace/DELETE FreeBSD 2.0-950322-SNAP
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 08:55:37 -0500 (CDT)
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Syscons is great -- it is mavelously configurable, robust, and
feature-filled.  A recent adjustment, however, is causing me
some inconvenience.

In this SNAP, the behavior of the backspace key changed from ctrl H
(0x08) to DEL (0x7f), even though /root/.login still has
stty crt erase ^H
in it.  In fact, I find it a loss of utility to have two keys on
the keyboard (BACKSPACE and DELETE) produce the same ASCII code
when neither produces ^H.  Also, I have set up all my logins on various
machines to use ^H for backspace.

I have read the man pages for vidcontrol and kbdcontrol and looked in
/usr/share/syscons/keymaps, but haven't found anything useful.  I have
also looked in /etc/sysconfig to see if there might be a clue there.
My greatest preference would be to change the behavior back to the
earlier way of simply producing ASCII BS on Backspace.  My next
thought is to dig into syscons.h and syscons.h -- suggestions?

		   John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services
E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG		USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN  55417