Backspace and Putty

[Seth]

Not. Thankyou but did all this, not working. And I did verify setting was
applied, and logged out and logged back in, and that /etc/profile had
setting. Do I need to export this setting or something else?

Thanks
Seth


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> mark->
> --
> Audio panton, cogito singularis.
> _______________________________________________
> Filepro-list mailing list
> Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes
> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/attachments/20140123/b1d37e10/attachment.html