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From: ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FBSD 2.0-SNAP: Backspace ASCII code
Date: 15 Feb 1995 13:44:31 -0800
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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 ^?


Gary :-)