Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!fred
From: fred@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Another Kermit Problem
Keywords: Kermit v2.1
Message-ID: <5696@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 15:42:26 GMT
References: <8231@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: fred@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Bowen)
Distribution: comp.sys.cbm
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8231@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> kykerr@k9.cs.orst.edu (Ronald Kyker) writes:
>
>	I'm having problems with the delete key in connect mode on kermit.
>     Outside of connect, the INST/DEL key will delete a character.  In
>     connect mode, it sends a .  The CLR HOME key seems to take over the
>     function in connect mode [...]

That's the way it is supposed to work.  Kermit redefines some of the keys
to implement ASCII codes not normally available from the Commodore keyboard
and to emulate a VT100 keyboard.  The basic redefinitions are:

	<left arrow>		escape
	<up arrow>		caret ^
	F1 or <shift =>		underscore _
	F2 or <shift B.lb>	bar |
	F3 or <shift @>		back tic `
	F4 or <shift up arrow>	tilda ~
	F5 or <shift +>		lf brace {
	F6 or <shift ->		rt brace }
	<B.lb>			backslash \
	<clr>			^L
	<home>			^H backspace
	<del>			delete (rubout)
	<inst>			break

So, what you are seeing is typical for a system which interprets ^H as the
'backspace and erase' character.  I don't know how easy it is to change this
in Kermit (also depends upon the version you have, I imagine).  You might also
be able to change it on the other end- depending upon the system to which you
connect (ask a system operator).
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