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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Slow backspaces on Sys V
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Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 14:18:13 EDT
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> >   We're have some AT&T 3b2/300's running SysV.2 and one of them is having
> > problems backspacing at a reasonable speed. ...
> 
> I have had the same problem (a long time ago, but apparently it still
> exists). From the caves of my memory, I remember that I used stty to tell
> the terminal driver not to use bs delay, but to send null fill characters
> (stty ofill) instead.

Or, if your terminal is fast enough not to need backspace delay (as I
suspect most are these days), just set the backspace delay to 0
("stty bs0").
	Guy Harris
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