I am having backspace/del problems with xterm. Things work out right on the debian server if erase = del. Things work out right on exceed with erase = backspace. What I am trying to do is put some commands in my .profile (or .bash_profile, or .bashrc) to set the erase char properly. So far, I can use the DISPLAY env var to pick the linux hosts. I am looking for a better way to do it.
Does anyone know of a way to return information from the xserver to xterm so that I can tell if it is a linux system? Alternately, is there a way to tell if I am using exceed from the xterm? There is a vendor string in the exceed protocol configuration but I don't know how to access it. I am sure that it can be done from a c prog. I just don't know quite where to start looking... tia jim