Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:53:18 +0100 From: Marc Perisa <marc@porsche.de> To: Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Message-ID: <07746531-0C79-11D7-BFE3-000A27AC3F98@porsche.de> In-Reply-To: <20021210194638.GA24994@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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Am Dienstag den, 10. Dezember 2002, um 20:46, schrieb Jonathan Chen: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:17:17PM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote: > > [...] >> 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 ? > > It's Linux that's stepping on standards. Their default config is to > have erase=DEL. All other UNIX boxen I've used have erase=BACKASPCE. > I suspect the PUTTY writers have been heavily influenced by Linux. Hi Adrian, it is not only for FreeBSD and Solaris but for Reliant Unix and HP-UX too. As Jonathan said - Linux doesn't behave like the others. I hope that helps with your boss. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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