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From: pete@dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: [pups] solution for the disklabel
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:14:54 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10201301814.ZM21539@mindy.dunnington.u-net.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> "Re: [pups] solution for the disklabel" (Jan 30, 16:03)

On Jan 30, 16:03, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> > Maybe it wants a DEL character instead of backspace (backspace *is*
ctrl-H,
> > shown as ^H or ^h).  Change it on the terminal by going into setup, or
use
> > stty on the BSD system to change the delete character (stty del '^h').
>
> On a real VT100 you cannot get the delete key to generate a backspace. He
> must be pressing the backspace key, or he's not using a VT100 at all, but
> instead some emulator, which isn't doing things the VT100 way...

Of course.  I've spent too long using my VT420.  A real VT102 has separate
delete and backspace keys.  Probably he's using some not-really-VT102
emulation in an xterm window or some emulator.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-30 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-19 19:47 [pups] 2.11BSD disklabel-programm lothar felten
2002-01-19 21:35 ` jkunz
2002-01-20 14:57   ` Pete Turnbull
2002-01-20 17:45     ` Jochen Kunz
     [not found]       ` <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
2002-01-20 18:31         ` Pete Turnbull
     [not found] ` <lothar.felten@gmx.net>
2002-01-19 22:18   ` Pete Turnbull
2002-01-20  1:05     ` AW: " lothar felten
2002-01-20 11:44     ` jkunz
2002-01-20 15:01       ` Pete Turnbull
2002-01-20 14:57   ` AW: " Pete Turnbull
2002-01-30  3:13   ` [pups] solution for the disklabel Pete Turnbull
2002-01-30 15:03     ` Johnny Billquist
     [not found]       ` <bqt@update.uu.se>
2002-01-30 18:14         ` Pete Turnbull [this message]
2002-02-04 19:27       ` [pups] VT102 and other hardware.... was: " lothar felten
2002-01-27 22:42 [pups] " lothar felten
2002-01-30  8:28 ` Johnny Billquist

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