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From: ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Backspace Key Causes Kill
Message-ID: <330028@vantage.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 89 17:13:02 GMT
Organization: Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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Occasionally we connect terminals to a UNIX system that are
required to emulate some non-HP terminal, such as a "VT100".

We set TERM to the appropriate value, but when I press the backspace key,
it is as if I had pressed del. In other words, backspace causes "kill"
instead of "erase".

The problem seems to be related to the terminal's keyboard layout -- when we
connect on that has backspace and del keys both in the upper right area, the
2 keys work find. When we connect one with only backspace up there (and del
HP location of lower left area), then we have the problem.

Cntrl-H does work for back spacing, but it is hard to remember to use that. And
I tend to need to use backspace a lot ... :-)

If there is a choice, I would rather have backspace do erase and have to key
in cntrl-U for kill.

Can anyone tell me if the problem:
1) is solvable at all?
2) if so, should I be looking at
   a) changing the TERM's termcap/terminfo entry (ugh...)
   b) issuing some stty command
   c) something else ...

Thanks for your assistance.

Ray Liere
Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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