[SunHELP] stty erase

[Ledger, David]

I have a solution that works when all remote access is via remsh host xterm
-display .......

It is complex just to fix this problem, but it can fix many other things as
well if its all set up right

I have a $HOME/.prefs directory.  I there I have stty.<HOST>.<OS> files
containing the 'stty -g' o/p
for an <OS> when used from the keyboard on <HOST>.

I have a method of ensuring that my current DISPLAY is correct, even if
/etc/profile messes it up.
In my .profile I generate a 'display' variable based on $DISPLAY.  If it is
dhcp allocated, this gets
modified to 'PC' (assuming eXceed, ReflectionX etc.).  Thus $display refers
to the keyboard I am using.
I have 3 ksh functions, kswap, ksave & kset.  kswap just swaps the erase &
kill chars.  ksave puts
stty -g o/p into the prefs file for that host|$display|keyboard with the
current OS.  kset sets stty from
the appropriate prefs file.  OS is only relevant if home is NFS mounted.
My .profile looks for the appropriate prefs file & uses it.
First time onto a host from a keyboard, I use stty or kswap to get it right,
then ksave it.  From then on
it just works.  It's especially useful when some hosts are HPs with a wide
variety of keyboard layouts.

HP-UX also has a ttytype command that interrogates a terminal to see what it
is.  This works over telnet.
A Solaris version would be handy.  Anyone know of one?

I also cache PATH and MANPATH per host in a similar way.

David

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David Ledger - Freelance Unix SysAdmin & chair of HP/Works SysAdmin SIG
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 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?
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