[Malvern] Backspace setting during login

[Richard Forster]

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