[SunHELP] stty erase

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, zarif wrote:

| Hi guys,  it's an old problem but I could find anything in the FAQ.
| Here it is.
| 
| I used to login from my IRIX box to Sun server (Solaris 7) and had
|     stty erase ^H
| line in the .profile.
| Now I have a couple of guys sharing the same account with me.  They have to
| login to the box, but they are on Linux stations and they have to type
|     stty erase ^?
| 
| Is there any way to determine a type of a machine I'm coming from (to put
| some "if - else" statement into .profile)?
| Or is there better solution?

TYPE = `uname -s`

if [ "$TYPE" = "Linux" ]; then

   stty erase ^?

else

   stty erase ^H

fi

/dale