Backspace and Putty

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 04:08:32PM -0500, Seth thus spoke:
> I am sure that this has been addressed ad nauseum, but I can't find the
> solution.
> 
> 2 Servers, Linux, FP 5.6, TERM=xterm; no PFTERM (not sure if that exists,
> seem to recall it though).
> 
> Putty for access from WINxp, WIN 7 and 8 desktops,
> 
> Settings in Putty:
> Terminal=Linux
> Backspace can be either Ctrl-H or Ctrl-? but works the same.
> 
> Backspace works fine in everything except in (only some) parts of FP, it
> moves the cursor ahead instead of backspacing.
> 
> I can't find any edits to apply to FPtermcap.

Because it's not a termcap issue, per se.  It's an stty issue.  Put this
in your profile(s) or the global /etc/profile (and any other shell startup
scripts, like tcshrc):

stty erase "^H"

Set your PuTTY to ^H.

Log in.

Done.

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