From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 3:31:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B884B37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 03:31:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from glamredhel.hayholt.org (hayholt.org [195.18.102.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444D643ED1 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 03:31:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@hayholt.org) Received: from moredhel.hayholt.org (unknown [192.168.0.3]) by glamredhel.hayholt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85985FA12; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:31:02 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:31:09 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger To: Adrian Penisoara Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021210122947.A9278-100000@moredhel.hayholt.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message