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From: corrigan@net1.ucsd.edu (Mike Corrigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: editing at login prompt (how to??)
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Date: 14 Apr 89 08:05:11 GMT
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In article <3708@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> angles@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:
>Does anybody know of a way to get login(1) to recognise line editing commands
>such as backspace/delete and kill. At the moment only # and @ are recognise

>Ian Angles, Systems Programmer, University Of Liverpool Computer Laboratory.
>UK - angles@uk.ac.liv.mva 
>TransAtlantic - angles%uk.ac.liverpool.vax@net.cs.relay (or so I'm told..)
>Europe - mcvax!ukc!uk.ac.liv.mva!angles

	Can't be changed on on HP-UX 3.01. nor on 6.x. @ and #
	are the erase and kill characters during the login process.
	Keeping these ice-age defaults is a pain for BSD types.