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From: ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Telix v3.12 Left Arrow Key Problem
Summary: I think it's a bug.
Message-ID: <13596@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 13 Sep 90 00:58:57 GMT
References: <4137@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <2249@peyote.cactus.org> <29424@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <29424@netnews.upenn.edu>, weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:
> In article <2249@peyote.cactus.org> woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan) writes:
> 
> 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'.

Indeed, you can edit the destructive backspace feature in the dial directory.
It *doesn't* work for the initial startup condition;  I use Telix with a
direct 9600 baud connection to a terminal server.  I have no modem to dial.
The TELIX.CNF configuration file explicitly says 'DestBS=Off'; but it continues
to enable destructive backspace on startup.  If that's not a bug, then we both
have distinctly different ideas of the 'bug' concept.

Does anyone have any ideas on circumventing this annoying 'feature'?

Eric, tinkerer-at-large

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