On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:

>   Could someone please give me some specifics on how to get the
> backspace key to delete the character to the left of the cursor
> instead of the character to the right of the cursor.

Try this:

	xmodmap -e "keycode 0x3B =  Delete"

or build "xkeycaps" and experiment. :)