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From: wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil (Will Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  ADM-42 Terminal Vs. UNIX Sys V Rel 3
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Date: 18 Sep 89 15:45:02 GMT
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The problem has been solved!

My thanks to Andrew Dingwall and Joseph Pepin, who pointed me to the
relevant discussion in the stty and termio(7) man pages. The problem
was that the new release of UNIX Sys V had "stty parmrk" turned on,
when it had not been on in the previous release. That setting has the
side effect, as noted in TERMIO(7), when combined with ISTRIP being off,
of causing a valid character "0377" (DEL) to be read as 0377 0377.

I eliminated the problem by putting "stty -parmrk" in my .profile files
everywhere. The doubling of the deletes went away.

The net really came thru on this one. 

Regards, Will