> Also, anyone offhand know why backspacing is lost in xterm?
> It works fine in ftp on xterm, but is lost in the plain xterm.
> I assume something minor needs twiddling?

Probably you have your erase character configured to be ^? when the
keyboard is sending ^H, or vice versa.   Ftp uses readline, which
automatically accepts either as an erase character.

I usually fix this by using xmodmap to get the keyboard to send ^?
when you hit the backspace key, and then doing ``stty erase ^?''.

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