Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:31:09 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org> To: Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Message-ID: <20021210122947.A9278-100000@moredhel.hayholt.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10212101316511.83051-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Adrian Penisoara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Marcel Stangenberger wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Adrian Penisoara wrote:
> >
> > > What is the proper solution ? I'd rather prefer to modify the termcaps
> > > than making adjustments in PuTTY, as some persons get cranky when it
> > > comes about changing PuTTY settings while Linux works well with the
> > > defaults.
> > >
> >
> > proper way is to alter the putty settings for your connection to freebsd
> > machines. Another way is changing the default shell to bash.
>
> But I have Bash as the default shell. And yes, it works changing the
> Terminal / Keyboard / "Backspace key" from "Contrl-? (127)" to
> "Control-H", but the users are pissed off by the fact that Linux doesn't
> need this -- does it mean FreeBSD has broken termcap entries or that
> Linux is just stepping on the traditional standards ?
>
Since solaris has the same problem i suspect that linux is stepping
on the standards.
Marcel
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