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	Hello Pedro,

	Compare the .login and .cshrc for the user and for the root. I
think you might also try "stty erase ^H" as user. 'man stty' for more
info. 

-- Yan

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:

> Howdy;
> Is it normal that the keyboard behaves differently when the user is
> root? When I log-in as root the keyboard works great, but when the user
> is not root I have to type control-backspace instead of backspace.
> I'm using a latin-american keyboard, what should I change in the keymap
> to have it consistent? This problem has been present in al FreeBSD
> versions I have used.
> 
> 	Pedro.
> 
>