On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 05:49:12PM -0500, Christopher W. Richardson wrote:

> I thought we had already established that they _do_ have
> different actions (^H and ^?). [..]

No, we haven't.

Look up in the thread - you'll see:

> I also see both giving ^? (that is, \177) on a PS2 keyboard and on my
> laptop.  I have a USB keyboard at home; I'll see what it gives.)
> My test was
>        stty -icanon; cat >/tmp/xx

Checked it in the same way, with the same result. In the text console mode
I also got ^? in both cases.

And that is the source of the problem.
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						Zbigniew Baniewski