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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Using META and DEL keys in console
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
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>>And C-d acts as DEL.
> 
> That doesn't sound very likely, though I haven't played around with
> the termcap entries.

C-d is normally bound to delete-char, which performs forward deletion.
Some people expect the DEL key to behave the same way...

-- 
-Chuck