Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!orstcs!k9!kykerr From: kykerr@k9.cs.orst.edu (Ronald Kyker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Kermit 2.1 Summary: What the DEL key sent. (Kermit v2.1) Keywords: Kermit v2.1 DEL key. Message-ID: <8281@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 16 Jan 89 10:21:24 GMT References: Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: kykerr@k9.cs.orst.edu (Ronald Kyker) Distribution: comp.sys.cbm Organization: Oregon State Universtiy - CS - Corvallis, Oregon Lines: 19 In article prindle@NADC.ARPA (Frank Prindle) writes: > >Also, the original poster said that pressing the DEL key sent a ".", which >does not sound right in any case. Could be he has a botched binary. > >Sincerely, >Frank Prindle >Prindle@NADC.arpa To clear up the confusion: the command line on the UNIX system here at school reads the kermit DEL char as a `^?'. This showed up in the editor I used to put together my posting (vi), but did not show up when posted to the newsgroup (should have double-checked)... Thanks for the help & advice - I'll check into `termcap' on the UNIX side and see if I can redefine the key mapping. -Ron