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From: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld)
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Subject: Re: Telix v3.12 Left Arrow Key Problem
Summary: Telix Left Arrow Key is Destructive BS Prob.
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Date: 12 Sep 90 01:54:03 GMT
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In article <2249@peyote.cactus.org> woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan) writes:
>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.
>> I normally use ProComm, and want to switch to Telix if I can configure
>> it away from this problem.  Example follows:
>
>Sounds like the old destructive backspace problem. I remember that being
>configurable in the terminal configuration menus or the dialing directory.
>Just set it to be non-destructive... I don't use Telix anymore, so perhaps
>I am off base here, but it sounded good.
>
>					Ron "Just Say No To MVS" Woan

Bingo.  From the Alt-O menu, choose Terminal options.  Then set
'Receive BS Destructive' to off.  If this works, go to your dialing
menu and edit the appropriate entries, making the same change.
Forgetting this last step was the source of just about everyone
(including myself) reporting that Telix had a bug where it would keep
resetting the paramter to 'ON'.

Neil

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