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]>
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