Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!mouse
From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: digital vt220 question
Message-ID: <1063@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 07:22:38 GMT
References: <588@nvuxl.UUCP> <4464@cup.portal.com>
Distribution: na
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
Lines: 28

In article <4464@cup.portal.com>, Howeird@cup.portal.com writes:
> The delete key in UNIX is used to abort what you are doing.  there is
> nothing wrong with your terminal.

> You want to use the Backspace key.

He probably doesn't want to use the backspace key.  Look at a vt220
sometime.  Try to find the backspace key.  Try a little harder.  Now,
what was that he wanted to use?  (For that matter, try to find ESC.  Or
LINEFEED.  Or (!) < or >.  I don't know what in the name of poslfit
possessed DEC to produce such a bizzare keyboard layout....)

More likely what he wants is to set his erase character to delete and
his interrupt to something else, like ^C.  (He's probably got erase #
and kill @, if he's got intr ^?...sigh.)

To the original poster, whose attribution seems to have been lost in
the shuffle:  Try saying

% stty new crt dec

and see if things don't behave a bit more sanely for you.  Since you've
got a vt220, I assume you're used to DEC operating systems, like VMS or
RSX, in which case the above is appropriate.

					der Mouse

			uucp: mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp
			arpa: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu