[geeks] Battle of the Century

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

In the red corner, wearning black trunks, with a history of conquests
including AIX and IRIX we have ^H!

In the blue corner, wearing the gold trucks, heavyweight champion of the
world on DEC UNIX, VMS, Solaris, and Mac OS X, let's hear it for ^?!!

And, stuck in the gridlock, we find me, a frustrated Unix user.

SSH was supposed to fix this with consistent rubout characters for all.
It hasn't.  Especially not on Solaris and never inside of screen.  RXVT
always gets it wrong on AIX.  Solaris can't decide WHAT it wants,
because the console uses ^? and dtterm uses ^H.

What's a fellow to do to maintain sanity?  I run Mac OSX, IRIX, AIX,
Solaris, Tru64, OpenBSD, and Linux--sometimes all in the same day.
Sometimes I shell in from my Powerbook, sometimes from my RS/6000, and
sometimes from a PC.

I'm not beyond the point of switching terminal programs, so long as the
replacement is somewhat as fast and lightweight as rxvt.

And it goes without saying that those responsible for this whole industry-
wide problem need to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a lead
pipe.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke  ) "Being on the Internet is not the same as being
Elgin, TX         (   famous.  That's like calling Cheetos 'dinner'."
USA                )                                    --Metal Steve