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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: tset (BSD?)
Message-ID: <8948@sol.ARPA>
Date: 24 Apr 88 21:40:41 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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OK, novice user logs on and is unaware that the default erase char on
his system is <DEL>, or worse still, #. Sees this:

TERM = (vt100)?

No, I'm on a Teleray, he says and proceeds to type t1061. He types 2
for 1, realizes the error and backspaces over it.  Tset gets
"t2<BS>1061", can't find this in /etc/termcap and prints "unknown
terminal type: t1061" and now the user is really confused. Usually they
have to logout at this point and retry, since they don't know that they
can say "source .login" and that isn't foolproof always.

My proposed solution: get tset to go into raw mode and accept both
<DEL> and <BS> as erase. Also probably both ^X and ^U as kill.  After
all, tset is usually the first program novices have to deal with.

	Ken