crd9852@ritcv.UUCP (03/02/87)
When I dial in from home with my 800XL and chameleon I have noticed
something peculiar with the backspace key. When I have the shell prompt
(I guess that's what you call it) the backspace key causes a control H
(^H) to be printed to the screen. When I am in vi, the backspace key
actually backspaces.
When I dial in from work, I use a Hewlett Packard terminal and the hp2626
termcap. At the shell prompt, the backspace key backspaces and
erases. In vi, it just backspaces. In fact, I am using the HP terminal now
along with vi to compose this.
It would be nice if chameleon would at least actually backspace when I am
at the shell prompt. It would be nice if it erased, too, but that is really
not required. Does anyone know of any additions or deletions I can make to
the chameleon termcap? I looked at the termcap manual page and the entry
for the hp2626. I tried a few things but nothing worked.
Thanks.
Charlie Dennett
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