Non-destructive backspace

[Jay A. Konigsberg]

In article <1990Dec6.190656.5866 at athena.cs.uga.edu> is at athena.cs.uga.edu ( Bob Stearns) writes:
>I am using SCO-XENIX 2.3.2d with a Wyse-60 terminal. The terminal's backspace
>is non-destructive, but my client wants it to be destructive. Is there any
>simple way to modify termcap to achieve this result? I tried RTFM, and even
>removed bs from the appropriate termcap entry, but it did not seem to work.
>Any assistance or recommendations on where to read the manual gratefully 
>accepted.

Termcap is the wrong place to look for this problem.

The action of the backspace key is controlled by "stty".

Enter: stty erase "^H"

in your /etc/profile. Note: if you use vi, the sequence will be
			    stty erase "^V^H"

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