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From: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Repeat of XFree question
Date: 12 Oct 1993 09:03:04 +0100
Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
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In article <12OCT93.04524383@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in wrote:
-> I have tried the keysym BackSpace=Delete  map.
-> My problem is not that i am unable to DELETE characters. It is that
-> characters that get deleted dont go off the screen: they stay there though
-> the machine does not recognize them or parse them.
-> e.g I type in "cleare" and delete one character and what is still see on
-> the screen is "cleare", with, perhaps, the cursor on the "e". However the
-> machine reads it as "clear" and clears the screen.
-> On the other hand, when i use the other function (i.e, if i have used ^H for
-> delete, then ^?) ERASES the characater from the screen without deleting it,
-> so i type "claer", delete three characters, see "cl" and add "ear" and the
-> machine responds: "claer^H^H^Hear not known"
-> I havent fiddled with the xterm termcap definitions (yet), so i want to
-> know what is wrong

Try in your .login:
	stty crt


								Christoph