Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: digital vt220 question
Message-ID: <7672@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 12 Apr 88 14:59:59 GMT
References: <588@nvuxl.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: question-digital vt220

In article <588@nvuxl.UUCP> myron@nvuxl.UUCP (Myron Seto) writes:
>access Unix.  The funny thing about this 
>terminal is that the delete key is not acting
>like a delete key.  When I use it, it acts like
>a Break and Return key instead.  It doesn't 
>simply erase the preceding letter and backspaces.
>Instead, it exits out of the whole command or
>whatever and gives me a new prompt.

That's the standard UNIX behavior.  Berkeley variants often
change the interrupt-generating character to ^C, apparently
inspired by DEC operating systems.  You can make this any
character you want via "stty".

>I have tried a number of things (playing with
>the "Set-Up", trying to change my stty erase
>(this won't work cause with the command 
>stty echoe erase 'delete key', I simply exit
>this command and it is never communicated.),

You need to change both the erase character (which is
probably initially set to # or backspace) AND the intr
character, via "stty".  Most people set these things up
in their .profile (shell start-up command file).  To
avoid having these characters act with their special
meaning, escape them or better yet use the "caret
notation" for them, e.g.
	stty intr '^c' erase '^?'

Alternatively, learn to use backspace as an erase
character.