SUMMARY: STTY

From: Fnu Kennedy (fkennedy@telcordia.com)
Date: Mon Dec 13 1999 - 06:51:25 CST

Dear SAs:

     Thanks a billion to all those who wrote back to me.
     I am forwarding one of the responses I got from Karl, which worked for me,
the very first shot, I gave!

Thanks Karl.

-Kennedy

vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil on 12/12/99 08:03:16 PM

To: kennedy@esp.telcordia.com
cc: (bcc: Fnu Kennedy/Telcordia)
Subject: Re: STTY

>> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:55:05 -0500 (EST),
>> KENNEDY <kennedy@esp.telcordia.com> said:

K> Dear SUNADMINS: When I login to any sun machine, via my NT PC using a
K> "xterm" window, I am unable to erase a character using the backspace
K> key. The variable "stty" in my .profile reads as:

K> stty cr0 nl0 -lcase tabs echoe erase ^H intr ^? kill ^U crt

   To properly set your backspace key, type

      stty erase

   followed by: space, Control-V, Backspace, Return 

--
Karl Vogel
ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA
vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil  or  kvogel@sumaria.com

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