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From: c60c-1gd@e260-1c.berkeley.edu (Joon Song)
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Subject: Re: Telix v3.12 Left Arrow Key Problem
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Date: 12 Sep 90 02:30:57 GMT
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In article <4137@rex.cs.tulane.edu> doerschu@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Dave Doerschuk) writes:
>I have noticed that the left-arrow key causes the character to the
>left of the cursor to disappear.  The character has not been erased,
>deleting and recalling the line show the charcter to still be present.

This happens because destructive-backspace is turned on.  You can turn it
off in one of two ways.

To turn it off temporarily - Press <ALT-O> for the Configuration Menu and 
                             choose Terminal Options and turn off Receive-
                             Backspace-Destructive (option H)

To turn it off permanently - Each entry in the dialing directory has the
                             destructive-backspace option.  You must edit
                             each entry in your dialing directory.
                             Change 'Rcvd BS is dest' to off.

This should solve your problems.

Joon Song
c60c@web.berkeley.edu