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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ADM-42 Terminal Vs. UNIX Sys V Rel 3
Message-ID: <11067@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Sep 89 13:10:20 GMT
References: <20853@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <20853@adm.BRL.MIL> wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil (Will Martin) writes:
>The first thing to suspect in this sort of thing, of course, is
>termcap/terminfo incompatibility.

Of course NOT.  If you see this behavior when you're typing shell
commands, terminfo is utterly ruled out.

Two things to check:  Does this occur while running cat>/dev/null?
If not, perhaps you're using a fancy shell whose command-line
editing is not set up right.  Is "stty echoe" in effect?  If so,
perhaps the BS SP BS sequence is improperly being sent as DEL SP DEL.