OC.TREI@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU (Peter G. Trei) (03/22/88)
Hi...
I've got a simple problem looking for a hackish answer. At my
worksite (Irving Bank), we have a VAX-750 under VMS dedicated to
running an internal mail system (Pony Express/MM32). We have a lot of
mostly computer-illiterate users coming in on many types of bizzare
little modem terminals. My question is this:
How can I cause backspace to be replaced by delete in all user input,
short of patching the terminal driver?
So many users hit BS instead of DEL, that it's easier to
accomodate them than retrain. On our older mail system (MS on a
TOPS-20 system) BS worked ok, but now on the vax, people trying to
read mail on printing terminals get unreadable overstrikes if the
sender used BS.
thanks,
Peter Trei
oc.trei@cu20b.arpa
oc.trei@cu20b.columbia.com
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