In message <572d8d8447@yoda.in-berlin.de>
          Stefan Voss <voss@yoda.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> In message <777e868447@tonyh.tcp.co.uk>,
>      Tony Houghton wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble with the erase key.
>
> What is the value of your TERM variable (echo $TERM)?

vt100

I tried putting stty erase "^H" in my .profile, typing the ^ and H
literally, as advised by Kjetil Thomassen, but what seems to be
happening now is that the backspace key is removing characters from the
input buffer as wanted, but it's still coming up ^H on screen instead of
backspacing the cursor.

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