> > erase seems to be set to ^H. When you run cat(1) and press DEL what > does your terminal show? My cons25 terminal shows: > > keramida@hades[19:34]/home/keramida$ cat > ^? Mine shows ^[[3~
> > Are you resetting any of erase or erase2 in your shell startup files > with stty? There is a statement in the /etc/bashrc file: stty erase `tput kbs` It appears twice in the file: stty erase `tput kbs` When I run tput kbs, nothing is displayed. Below is a snippet from the bashrc file with the conditionals. # are we an interactive shell? if [ "$PS1" ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ]; then if [ "x`tput kbs`" != "x" ]; then # We can't do this with "dumb" terminal stty erase `tput kbs` elif [ -x /usr/bin/wc ]; then if [ "`tput kbs|wc -c `" -gt 0 ]; then # We can't do this with "dumb" terminal stty erase `tput kbs` fi fi fi Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message