Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:15:59 -0800 From: "Brian" <bri@sonicboom.org> To: "Adrian Penisoara" <ady@freebsd.ady.ro>, "Marcel Stangenberger" <marcel@hayholt.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Message-ID: <006e01c2a067$708a9080$2324200a@me> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10212101316511.83051-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
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putty on win to freebsd works ok for me, except for bitchx, so I just set
term=vt102 prior to firing up BitchX. My shell is tcsh.
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Penisoara" <ady@freebsd.ady.ro>
To: "Marcel Stangenberger" <marcel@hayholt.org>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY
> 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 ?
>
> Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro)
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