[NCLUG] Re: Backspace

[Charles Clarke]

Using CTRL-V will escape the next character, so you can get around his
game with with: s^Vt^Vty erase ^H

charles

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On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Michael Dwyer wrote:

> Haplo Patryn wrote:
> > 
> > You can always try this
> > 
> > stty erase ^H
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > stty erase ^?
> 
> That is, type "stty erase " then press the key that you would LIKE to
> cause a backspace.  It will usually generate the ^? or ^H for you.
> 
> A 'friend' of mine always got a kick out of running "stty erase t" on my
> machines.  You couldn't exiT, you could logouT, and you couldn't run
> "sTTy" to fix it, you couldn't shuTdown, halT, or reseT...  Ah, those
> were the days...
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