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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Erase/kill on login
Message-ID: <122@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 12 Mar 88 18:33:17 GMT
References: <263@stcns3.stc.oz>
Organization: One of the Eternal Champions - Richfield, Mn, USA
Lines: 15
Summary: brain damaged yes, but...

In article <263@stcns3.stc.oz>, root@stcns3.stc.oz (System Supervisor) writes:
> Is there any way in Sys V to get to use arbitrary erase/kill characters
> while logging in?  Why those brain-damaged #/@ characters are still used,
> I don't know.  I haven't seen a hard-copy terminal for quite some time...

At least these chars, albeit brain damaged, are standard!  (:-)  The problem
with letting everyone define their very own erase/kill chars is that then noone
knows what to use.  For you, for example, the preferred and intuitive chars are
bs and ^U.  I on the other hand *hate* ^U and use bs and ^X (like it says in
ascii - cancel!).  Don't get me wrong, I'm not flaming your choice of chars,
just pointing out that a little more chaos would creep in with those kinds of
settable params.  If you have source code you can easily change it.  At the
very least, #/@ should be supported...
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Derek Terveer	det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG	uunet!rosevax!elric!hawkmoon!det