Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!rbj@icst-cmr.arpa From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Erase/kill on login Message-ID: <12488@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 18 Mar 88 06:17:51 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 33 In some article, 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! (:-) Wrong. I'm willing to bet the great majority of unix users *never* used either of these characters for either function. 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!). Cancel? Why not just NAK it :-) But seriously, BSD's standard control chars (erase is DEL, kill is ^U) are what DEC has been using for years, all the way back to RT-11. The only difference is ^D vs ^Z. 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... -- Derek No. #/@ should be dropped. They are graphics, not control characters. Whichever you choose, at least pick them from the right set. Terveer det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG uunet!rosevax!elric!hawkmoon!det (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 I guess it was all a DREAM.. or an episode of HAWAII FIVE-O...