Re: kterm question

[Bruce Bowler <bbowler bigelow org>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:27:36 -0600
Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net> put fingers to keyboard and
said:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:58:16PM -0500, Bruce Bowler wrote:
> > 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 :-)
> 
> See http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html
> 
> > 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' 
> 
> There should be a space after "-xrm".  Or is that just a copying
> error?  If so, what doesn't work?

Guess I should have been a bit more complete in my problem statement :-)

Yes, there really is a space after -xrm, it was the mailer that
reformatted "automagically" at one point and when I manually
un-reformatted, I forgot to add that space back in...

What I'm trying to do is ssh into a remote system, running VMS.  When I
get to the VMS system (and here's where I think Rick hit the nail on the
head, something on that end is acting "weird"), the delete key still
deletes but the backspace key, which "deletes" while I'm "local" suddenly
starts "backspacing".

If I do exactly the same thing, but use xterm instead of kterm, when I
get to the VMS system, the backspace deletes and delete simply echos the
last line, fully intact.

Bruce

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