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From: conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu (Darryl C. Conliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Backspace Problems with VT100s
Summary: a guess
Message-ID: <42b6c0d9.b11a@falcon.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 89 23:00:00 GMT
References: <8904181517.AA03230@lnic1.hprc.uh.edu>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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In article <8904181517.AA03230@lnic1.hprc.uh.edu>, wescott@LNIC1.HPRC.UH.EDU (Andrew M. Wescott) writes:
> We have three modems hooked up to our DN 10000 which remote
> users dial up to typically with vt100s, vt220s (in vt100 mode),
> or PCs with vt100 emulation.  Our only problem (besides some
> remote emacs problems I have discussed here) involves the
> backspace key within the C-Shell.  Most users have an alias
> like that shown below which they invoke on remote login:
> 
>           alias  dec  'setenv TERM vt100 ; stty dec'
> 
> And this sets our TERM properly as can be plainly seen, and
> maps the backspace to ^? (some other things too) .  Well,
> when backspace is invoked, the remote terminal echoes ^?
> rather than backspacing (deleting in this case).  I'm at a
> loss.  This problem is a real nuisance, since people end
> up with file names having ???? appended to them in their
> directories.  Note that we have this problem only in the
> shell, as vi behaves nicely.

Andrew, does your stty have an option call ctlecho?  In SR9.7,
this option forced the echo of control characters.  stty -ctlecho
turned it off, and would yield the correct result.
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 Darryl C. Conliffe  conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu  (313) 721-6069
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