On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Michael C. Richardson wrote:

>
>  Can we extend the solution and put *two* "delete" characters into
>the tty drivers?

Not a bad idea - after all, termios has had an alternate EOL character
for ages.

However, if you use ksh for your login shell and have everything which
does record-oriented tty reads linked to use readline most of the
problems with DEL vs BS as the erase char magically go away.  :-)


Roger

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