From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pete@dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:14:54 GMT Subject: [pups] solution for the disklabel In-Reply-To: Johnny Billquist "Re: [pups] solution for the disklabel" (Jan 30, 16:03) References: Message-ID: <10201301814.ZM21539@mindy.dunnington.u-net.com> 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