[SunHELP] Setting backspace key

[David Ledger]

>From: Lara Matthews <lara.matthews at accesscomputing.co.uk>
>Hi James
>
>James, Denise wrote:
>>  I have tried to edit the .profile that root uses so that I can set the
>>  backspace key.  Nothing seems to work.  I also tried to set an alias and
>>  that did not work either...I got the error not found.
>>
>
>you could use bash.  It has the backspace mapped correctly.
>
>Lara

That depends on your idea of 'correct'.  Different people prefer 
different settings. That's why there's a problem for about 50% of the 
users.

I you're accessing from a PC using an PC X server, the PC and X s/w 
mappings come into play as well.

Just put the stty line in your .profile.

David


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