backspace, delete woes

[Cameron Simpson]

On 21Aug2006 10:50, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
| On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| On the remote machine it now tells me
| eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^?; erase2 = ^H; intr = ^C; kill = ^U;

Hmm, erase2! New lore! Thanks, I could do with that on several machines.

| For some reason, probably to deal with some other ancient problem,
| I had had a startup file setting erase to ^H.
| Changing that fixxed my problem.

You may find commenting it out to be sufficient.

Glad things worked out. Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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