Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!madd
From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ProComm Plus DEL/BS
Message-ID: <19970@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 18 Feb 88 03:40:14 GMT
References: <2944@swan.ulowell.edu> <2945@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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In article <2945@swan.ulowell.edu> boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (Bug-Hunter) writes:
>The only complaint: The delete key. In 2.4.2, you could define what code the
>backspace key sent (DEL, BS, or CHR(127)), but the only choices I've found
>from ProComm+ is DESTRUCTIVE/NON-DESTRUCTIVE, and if I try and use it while
>online, I get ^H's, which UNIX interprets as a character in the command
>line. Anybody have an idea or patch for this??

No idea how to patch it, but I'd say a simple solution is 'stty erase
^H' on the UNIX system.  Of course, most editors won't like it but it
makes life a lot more reasonable on the command line and may help you
out until someone comes up with a patch.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu