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Hi,

I have installed the zsh on an IBM RS6000 power2; the backspace key (and
also Delete or C^h) does not work, it produces a blank after the last
letter.
But in fact it's only the appearance, because pressing enter the result
is correct.
Exactly the same executable works properly on an IBM PowerPC (TERM being
set to xterm on both).
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Thanks,
        Guido

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Try setting the TERMCAP or TERMLIB variable to "fix" the backspace problem.
 Or, just stty erase "your-erase-char-here"

In any case, try man termcap and man stty.

Cheers.

: Hi,

: I have installed the zsh on an IBM RS6000 power2; the backspace key (and
: also Delete or C^h) does not work, it produces a blank after the last
: letter.
: But in fact it's only the appearance, because pressing enter the result
: is correct.
: Exactly the same executable works properly on an IBM PowerPC (TERM being
: set to xterm on both).
: Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

I have the same problem. It seems that zsh is not able to use the
terminfo database, it uses termcap instead. /etc/termcap does not have many
entries like xterm.
There should be a way to force zsh to use terminfo, I just did not have
the time to play with it. I believe that "export TERM=vt100" will make
things a bit better, but that is not the correct solution...

If you figure out how to hack the Makefile or "configure", please
tell me.

Thanks

Michael

| I have the same problem. It seems that zsh is not able to use the
| terminfo database, it uses termcap instead. /etc/termcap does not have many
| entries like xterm.
| There should be a way to force zsh to use terminfo, I just did not have
| the time to play with it. I believe that "export TERM=vt100" will make
| things a bit better, but that is not the correct solution...

I link applications against -lcurses to get terminfo, on AIX.

It's good to know that zsh requires termcap/terminfo to function
normally - reason to avoid it.

        Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington