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From: dale@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Dale McCluskey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Backspace Key Causes Kill
Message-ID: <1080109@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 90 16:21:41 GMT
References: <330028@vantage.UUCP>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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Ray Liere (ray@vantage.UUCP) writes:
> 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 stty(1) command will fix this nicely.  Assuming that you use ksh(1), 
try 
	$ stty erase ^? kill ^u

or something similar.  The command above sets up DEL as the erase character
and ^u as the kill character.  Other shells may require you to quote this 
sort of thing.

								Dale


Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not Hewlett-Packard.