Backspace and Putty

[Seth]

That works!

Thank you Ken.

While we are on the subject of terminal behavior, is there any way to make
the data entry in fields work as a standard word processor would rather
than overwrite/insert and delete would delete characters? Our break key is
presently Ctrl-C.

Thanks
Seth


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net>wrote:

> On 1/22/2014 4:08 PM, Seth wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Check the "xterm" entry in fp/termcap.  If it has "tc=linux", then check
> the "linux" entry.
>
> You need to make sure that there is a ":bs:" value in that entry.  That's
> the flag that specifies that the terminal is capable of backspacing.
>
> --
> Kenneth Brody
>
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