From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 8:16:22 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 131EA37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:16:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from entwistle.sonicboom.org (node-423a3b1b-san-onnet.worldcom.com [66.58.59.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4DC43ED8 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from me (gateway.sonicboom.org [66.58.59.29]) by entwistle.sonicboom.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBAGFdPe071060; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Message-ID: <006e01c2a067$708a9080$2324200a@me> From: "Brian" To: "Adrian Penisoara" , "Marcel Stangenberger" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:15:59 -0800 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 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 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" To: "Marcel Stangenberger" Cc: 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) > ____________________________________________________________________ > | An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but | > | because people refuse to see it. | > | -- James Michener, "Space" | > > > > > 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