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From: jak@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Jay A. Konigsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Non-destructive backspace
Message-ID: <4443@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US>
Date: 8 Dec 90 18:56:54 GMT
References: <1990Dec6.190656.5866@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix, Sacramento, Ca.
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In article <1990Dec6.190656.5866@athena.cs.uga.edu> is@athena.cs.uga.edu ( Bob Stearns) writes:
>I am using SCO-XENIX 2.3.2d with a Wyse-60 terminal. The terminal's backspace
>is non-destructive, but my client wants it to be destructive. Is there any
>simple way to modify termcap to achieve this result? I tried RTFM, and even
>removed bs from the appropriate termcap entry, but it did not seem to work.
>Any assistance or recommendations on where to read the manual gratefully 
>accepted.

Termcap is the wrong place to look for this problem.

The action of the backspace key is controlled by "stty".

Enter: stty erase "^H"

in your /etc/profile. Note: if you use vi, the sequence will be
			    stty erase "^V^H"

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Jay @ SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca.   UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0!jak
If something is worth doing, it's worth doing correctly.