From: edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) Subject: Choice of RUBOUT (was Re: MGR questions) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1992 01:04:00 GMT
drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) wrotes:
>"backspace" is not the backspace key (^H). It is "rub out". If
>you to a stty erase to that character, it will have the same
>behavior as ^H.
I was sortof wondering why this was chosen, as it was giving me
annoying problems when logging into unix systems with kermit or ka9q,
in that I usually use backspace (it seems more "standard" in the unix
world) rather than rubout (a VMSism in my experience). I can
thankfully say "was giving", as I've gone through the kernel and
switched it from rubout to backspace so everything works smoothly
now. :)
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Brian Edmonds (MSc CompSci) edmonds@cs.ubc.ca