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hi,

this is a question I always wanted to ask but been afraid to.

For some reason, on my soalris 2.5 sparc-station, the backspace key
for some reason suddenly stops doing what it is supposed to do, it
erase the letter just typed, instead , hitting Backspace produced ^H,
when this happens, I either use the Del key instead, or have to type
$ stty erase ^H  
again.

This is a bit annoying, I know it is not a big deal, I asked around
about this, but no one seems to know why/how to solve this.

ANy idea on this? I'd really like the Backspace key not to lose it
binding, so I dont have to keep doing this stty erase ^H thing tens
of times every day.

thanks,
Nasser
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Nasser Abbasi. C/C++/Ada Solaris. Perkin Elmer - Applied BioSystem division.

Quote:

> hi,

> this is a question I always wanted to ask but been afraid to.

Quote:

> For some reason, on my soalris 2.5 sparc-station, the backspace key
> for some reason suddenly stops doing what it is supposed to do, it
> erase the letter just typed, instead , hitting Backspace produced ^H,
> when this happens, I either use the Del key instead, or have to type
> $ stty erase ^H  
> again.

I can't understand why there is a backspace key on the keyboard if the del key
(which intuitively should delete to the right) does the job of the backspace
key.

This is really weird and very annoying until you get all the profiles changed.

Anybody know of an easier way?

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Best Regards,

Brian Craigie

Unix Sys Admin

My views are not necessarily those of my employers...

<<< Would sixty gallons be sufficient? -- Robby the Robot >>>

:
: This is really weird and very annoying until you get all the profiles changed.
:
: Anybody know of an easier way?
:

Download a decent, usable shell. I consider nothing that ships with Solaris
decent and usable. First choice is bash (ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/bash-*),
followed by zsh (for ksh users) and tcsh (for csh users). You'll not only
see your keyboard mapping problems disappear, but you'll see your general
system usability increase a thousandfold.

dan
: --
:
: Best Regards,
:
: Brian Craigie
:
: Unix Sys Admin
:
: My views are not necessarily those of my employers...
:
:
: <<< Would sixty gallons be sufficient? -- Robby the Robot >>>

You may also use "tset -e" in your .login file, this will make the backspace
work as a backspace.

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