On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:17:17PM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote: [...] > 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 ?
It's Linux that's stepping on standards. Their default config is to have erase=DEL. All other UNIX boxen I've used have erase=BACKASPCE. I suspect the PUTTY writers have been heavily influenced by Linux. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message