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From: ryan@sjuphil.uucp (Patrick M. Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Curses erase char question
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.233750.29558@sjuphil.uucp>
Date: 24 Oct 90 23:37:50 GMT
Reply-To: ryan@sjuphil.UUCP (Patrick M. Ryan)
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Why does Curses sometimes print out the erase character instead of
erasing the previous character like it supposed to?  I checked it
out with the erasechar() function and it does, in fact, know what
the erase character is.   The backspace on my keyboard is set
to '^?' and it works just fine in the shell.  the application i'm
writing has a command line interface and will be tedious to use if
the user cannot use the backspace.

thanks,
pat

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