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Re: stty erase WTF



tls%panix.com@localhost (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

>1) On my ssh client, stty shows erase is ^?

Which apparently is wrong :-)

>The culprit appears to be these lines in /root/.profile:

>	if [ -x /usr/bin/tset ]; then
>        	eval $(tset -sQrm 'unknown:?unknown')
>	fi

Here you tell it to configure the tty for $TERM which
is probably 'xterm' and which asks for erase = ^H.
Trust your terminfo database.


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