From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 9 01:05:14 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA10960 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 01:05:14 -0700 Received: from kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu (root@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu [130.132.128.124]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA10948 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 01:05:09 -0700 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 04:04:27 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Mark Murray cc: FreeBSD-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: backspace key doesn't work in X In-Reply-To: <199504090659.IAA25953@grunt.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Apr 1995, Mark Murray wrote: > > > > Just wanted to report that the backspace key would just generate > > ^H on the screen for all TCP/IP Clients and not work correctly under X... > > Anyone know how to fix this? I forgot to mention that it worked before > > the backspace key changes to Syscons.. > > This is why: (output from stty -a) > > > speed 115200 baud; 0 rows; 0 columns; > lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe -echok echoke -echonl echoctl > -echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho pendin -nokerninfo > -extproc > iflags: -istrip icrnl -inlcr -igncr ixon -ixoff ixany imaxbel ignbrk > brkint -inpck -ignpar -parmrk > oflags: opost onlcr -oxtabs > cflags: cread cs8 -parenb -parodd hupcl clocal -cstopb -crtscts -mdmbuf > cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = ; > eol2 = ; erase = ^?; intr = ^C; kill = ^U; lnext = ^V; > min = 1; quit = ^\; reprint = ^R; start = ^Q; status = ; > stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; time = 0; werase = ^W; > > Notice the erase is set to ^? (DEL)? The job is not complete. > yes, the strange thing is that erase is set to ^H for the login window but everything else is on ^? but if I did stty erase ^H then it would work but has anyone got backspace to work in ytalk or talk? It just shows ^H on the other side... > M > -- > Mark Murray > 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa > +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 > Cheers, Vince -*vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu*- UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering