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From: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: telix bugs
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Date: 21 Mar 90 04:28:36 GMT
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In article <542@fwi.uva.nl> linden@natasha.fwi.uva.nl (Onno van der Linden) writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> Someone recently wrote that setting destructive backspace to OFF in the Telix
>terminal setup menu would allow vi to work properly and not mess up the
>characters on the line when going left with the cursor.
> He was right,BUT,although I had saved the setup and destbs=off appeared in
>telix.cnf,when I entered the terminal setup menu after executing telix again,
>the destructive backspace was ON.

1. I'm glad that my suggestion was correct.
2. This is why I use MS-Kermit for dealing with my UNIX toys.  I would love
to use Telix if anyone figures this out.


Neil


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