"Jason M. Felice" wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 06:46:24PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > Backspace vs Delete: the bane of UNIX TTY handling. The Linux
> > console, and the tn5250 XTerm resources, make the key marked
> > "<-Backspace" generate "\177", ASCII DEL, which should then be termcap
> > capability kb. However, cursesterm.c line 211 sets \177 to K_DELETE
> > instead of K_BACKSPACE, so the backspace key doesn't work. If I
> > remove this line, then the Backspace key works again.
>
> Okay, I've removed it, but you can tell from my comment that I had to
> specifically add it for some other reason. Now if I could only
> remember what... I have a feeling I'll find out soon enough.
>
> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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Is there something I can do to make the backspace key work without recompiling a
program? I'm using the xt5250 from KDE. If not, what are my steps to fix
this. I'm not sure if I have the source code. I downloaded the RPM binaries.
Thanks,
Mike Everidge
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