In message <777e868447@tonyh.tcp.co.uk>,
     Tony Houghton wrote:

> I'm having trouble with the erase key. For some reason Delete has
> stopped working too now (I think it comes up with ^?) and stty erase ^H
> doesn't work any more (and yes I am pressing backspace to get the ^H).
> Sometimes backspace produces something else besides ^H. Sometimes it
> works as erase :-/.
> 
> Is there any way of getting the command in my .profile by escaping the
> ^H? I tried stty erase \x08 as a command, but that stopped x from
> working.

What is the value of your TERM variable (echo $TERM)?

Regards,
  Stefan

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Stefan Voss
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