Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:46:38 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY Message-ID: <20021210194638.GA24994@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10212101316511.83051-100000@ady.warpnet.ro> References: <20021210120315.V9278-100000@moredhel.hayholt.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10212101316511.83051-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:17:17PM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote:
[...]
> But I have Bash as the default shell. And yes, it works changing the
> Terminal / Keyboard / "Backspace key" from "Contrl-? (127)" to
> "Control-H", but the users are pissed off by the fact that Linux doesn't
> need this -- does it mean FreeBSD has broken termcap entries or that
> Linux is just stepping on the traditional standards ?
It's Linux that's stepping on standards. Their default config is to
have erase=DEL. All other UNIX boxen I've used have erase=BACKASPCE.
I suspect the PUTTY writers have been heavily influenced by Linux.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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