putty on win to freebsd works ok for me, except for bitchx, so I just set
term=vt102 prior to firing up BitchX. My shell is tcsh.
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Penisoara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Marcel Stangenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Marcel Stangenberger wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Adrian Penisoara wrote:
> >
> > > What is the proper solution ? I'd rather prefer to modify the
termcaps
> > > than making adjustments in PuTTY, as some persons get cranky when it
> > > comes about changing PuTTY settings while Linux works well with the
> > > defaults.
> > >
> >
> > proper way is to alter the putty settings for your connection to freebsd
> > machines. Another way is changing the default shell to bash.
>
> But I have Bash as the default shell. And yes, it works changing the
> Terminal / Keyboard / "Backspace key" from "Contrl-? (127)" to
> "Control-H", but the users are pissed off by the fact that Linux doesn't
> need this -- does it mean FreeBSD has broken termcap entries or that
> Linux is just stepping on the traditional standards ?
>
> Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro)
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