[SunHELP] Setting backspace key

Sheldon T. Hall shel at tandem.artell.net
Tue Jul 19 15:25:56 CDT 2005


Phil Stracchino writes ...
> Sandwich Maker wrote:
> > " From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
> > " I tend to use:
> > " 
> > " stty sane
> > " stty erase ^H
> > 
> > why separate?  why not combine them into a single stty command?
> 
> Because I know I can safely combine erase, intr etc. in one 
> command, but
> I just wanted to make damn certain 'sane' gets applied before 
> it starts mucking with anything else.
> 
> Possibly needless paranoia, but....

When it comes to UNIX, no level of paranoia can be termed "needless."

-Shel



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