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From: jrwsnsr@nmt.edu (Jonathan Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Telix v3.11 - backspace/delete
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.082538.6627@nmt.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 90 08:25:38 GMT
References: <15626@reed.UUCP>
Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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From article <15626@reed.UUCP>, by minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,L08,x640,7776519):
> I can't get telix to do what I want it to (v3.11).  Specifically, there is an
> option while dialing: "BS key sends."  To log into my UNIX account, I want it
> to send a DEL.
> 
> The only way I can see to get telix to perform this swap is when I dial. If,
> for example, I exit telix with a connection still going, and start a new
> copy of telix that picks up the connection to the UNIX host, the backspace key
> will be sending backspaces again. I can find no option to fix this.  Is there
> a way I can coerce the key mapping functions to do it? What is the funky
> sequence I tell the key mapper to send a delete? (it says that ^@ is null, for
> example. What is delete?)
> 
> This comes up as sometimes the VT102 emulation gets a little confused in telix,
> and I have to exit and restart to repair it.

There is an option in one of the submenus of Alt-O to do this.  It may or
may not work with version 3.11 (3.12 is the latest).  Alternatively, you can
do the key mapping on the UNIX end...try "stty erase '^H'".

  - Jonathan Watts
 
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