From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 11:56:58 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 6236537B404 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:56:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from gate21.fw.porsche.de (gate23.fw.porsche.de [193.174.9.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2762543EB2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@porsche.de) Received: (qmail 10927 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2002 20:06:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wuxin011.ibd.porsche.de) (141.36.65.1) by 193.197.149.150 with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 20:06:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 7973 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2002 19:56:52 -0000 Received: from darwinrz.zbk.porsche.de (141.36.179.17) by smtp4cli.ibd.porsche.de with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 19:56:52 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:53:18 +0100 Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Adrian Penisoara From: Marc Perisa In-Reply-To: <20021210194638.GA24994@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Message-Id: <07746531-0C79-11D7-BFE3-000A27AC3F98@porsche.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) 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 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