Curses erase char question

[Patrick M. Ryan]

Why does Curses sometimes print out the erase character instead of
erasing the previous character like it supposed to?  I checked it
out with the erasechar() function and it does, in fact, know what
the erase character is.   The backspace on my keyboard is set
to '^?' and it works just fine in the shell.  the application i'm
writing has a command line interface and will be tedious to use if
the user cannot use the backspace.

thanks,
pat

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