[Malvern] Backspace setting during login
Richard Forster
rick at forster.uklinux.net
Wed Sep 6 20:36:28 BST 2006
Yeah maybe, but .deb isn't as good as yum and firefox is WAY better
than k3b
Also sandwich toasters are better than frogs.
Chris Eilbeck wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:23:45PM +0100, Steve Cashmore wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been bugged for a long time regarding the handling of the backspace
>> key during a remote login to Linux boxes. It crops up and I try to fix
>> it, give up, and then forget until it comes around again!
>>
>> The issue is that the default login handler treats DEL (0x7F) as the
>> delete last character code rather than BACKSPACE (0x08). While this can
>> easily be changed *post-login* with "stty erase ^H", I have yet to find a
>> way to do it *pre-login* on the linux box in question, Fedora 4.
>
> Ha! You see, yet another reason why apt is better than rpm!
>
> Chris
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