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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FBSD 2.0-SNAP: Backspace ASCII code
Date: 16 Feb 1995 19:44:43 -0600
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References: <3g8poc$c3f@Owl.nstn.ca> <3h4610$9m@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <3htsjv$j4@crl.crl.com> <1995Feb16.221025.7895@news.csuohio.edu>
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In article <1995Feb16.221025.7895@news.csuohio.edu>,
Yaser K. Doleh <doleh@cis.csuohio.edu> wrote:
>In article <3htsjv$j4@crl.crl.com>, ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant) writes:
>|> In article <3h4610$9m@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>,
>|> Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>|> >Mike Digdon (digdon@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca) wrote:
>|> >: I'm pretty annoyed by the fact that FBSD is mapping my backspace key to ^H,
>|> >: and everything wants to see ^?. I need to do a stty erase ^H to fix this,
>|> >: but if I use kermit to connect anywhere, it stops working. Same as when I
>|> >: su to root.
>|> >
>|> >: Is there any way to make the backspace key be ^? instead of ^H?
>|> >
>|>
>|> stty erase ^?
>|>
>
>The Delete key generates ^?
As does the Ctrl-Bksp combo. You can change the value of the Bksp key
to be ^? by editing the keymap table. You can have this process happen
automatically by loading your patch from /etc/rc.local or such. The
place to start is the man page for kybdcontrol. Basically:
1) use kbdcontrol to save the current keyboard state to a file
2) edit the file to suit your needs
3) load the new keyboard file
4) when you're happy put the keyboard file into
/usr/share/syscons/keymaps and load it at boot time from /etc/rc.local
Should this be in the FAQ, is this in the FAQ?
C.
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