kterm question

[Bruce Bowler <bbowler bigelow org>]

not strictly a redhat question, but it's on a RH system :-)

Please forgive the stupidity of the following question, but I've never
understood termcap and/or terminfo, and probably never will...

I have one application (in the metaphorical sense) for which xterm doesn't
work but kterm works (almost) perfectly.  The one think I can't figure
out how to do in kterm (which works in xterm) is to map the backspace key
to perform the same function as the delete key (alternately, please
retrain my brain to use the delete key instead of the backspace key :-)

I have a launcher set to execute the following, which, from reading
kterm/xterm man pages should work, but doesn't

	/usr/X11R6/bin/kterm -bg white -fg black -geometry 80x46
			-xrm'backarrowKeyIsErase:true' 

Any ideas?

it's kterm-6.2-0.30, RH8 (up to date, which some RH9 packs), kernel
2.4.20-20.8smp

Thanks!
Bruce

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