On May 1, 2007, at 8:21 PM, mowestusa wrote:

> In the NetBSD Guide I found the following information:
>
> You may need to type one of the following commands to
> get your delete key to work properly, depending on
> your keyboard:
>                 # stty erase '^h'
>                 # stty erase '^?'

Dean Huxley showed me these a long time ago.  I thought they were cute 
(bash):

alias ^H="stty erase ^H"
alias ^?="stty erase ^?"

Whenever you log in to some machine, just hit your backspace key and  
return.