From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 12:18:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gallagher.chicago.il.us (el01-24-131-151-85.ce.mediaone.net [24.131.151.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118E437C16A for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from burke@gallagher.chicago.il.us) Received: from fatman2k (fatman2.burke.org [192.168.0.2]) by gallagher.chicago.il.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA55658; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:18:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from burke@gallagher.chicago.il.us) Message-ID: <001901bf8872$34421ae0$0200a8c0@fatman2k> From: "Burke Gallagher" To: "Jerry Lei" Cc: References: <20000307185013.67305.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000307120422.B11440@socrates.i-pi.com> Subject: Re: set up stty erase BACKSPACE in .login Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:17:41 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Also be sure to check out Anne Baretta's page "Consistent BackSpace and Delete Configuration" http://www.ibbnet.org/~anne/keyboard/keyboardprev.html burke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Ingham" To: "Jerry Lei" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 1:04 PM Subject: Re: set up stty erase BACKSPACE in .login > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:50:13AM -0800, Jerry Lei wrote: > > I try to set up stty erase BACKSPACE in .login. > > However, I try to type "stty erase BACKSPACE" in .login (no quotation mark > > actually). Doesn't work. I can't really keyin "stty erase (push the key of > > BACKSPACE)", then of course I will get "stty erase" > > > > Can anyone give me a suggestion? Thanks > > Try: > stty erase ^h > > Note that the last two characters are simply a ^ and a h > > Kenneth > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message