[plug] terminal erase and del chars

[Ryan]

I've done it before years ago but can't remember how now, it was on an
old SunOS box.

Does this give you any clues?:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/BackspaceDelete.html

Is it a lovely smiley happy SCO app? :)

Ryan

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 16:28, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I was hoping someone on PLUG might know how to change the erase and del 
> chars used by xterm. I've got an app here that doesn't correctly follow 
> termcap/terminfo and wants backspace to send ^H and del to send ^? 
> instead of the (strange) linux backspace=^? and del=^[[3~ .
> 
> Alas, modifying it to just follow the darn termcap won't be possible. It 
> has its own undocumented termcap file format, you see...
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
> 
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