Telnet to Unix and Backspace?

[johnmont]

I use terminal all the time to telnet to sgi irix machines, but I'm having problems with the Delete Key. All that gets sent is "^?^?^?".

I know in telnet apps in classic, you can select delete key sends backspace to overcome this problem, but I don't see anything in the man pages for telnet.

And suggestions?

[Novajo]

Once you are logged into the other computer, I believe the following command would do the job:

stty erase "^?"

which sets the erase character to "^?". See man stty for more info on "control characters" (and lots of other things too).

[macubergeek]

just use the delete key instead.

[xchanyazy]

Try editing your .login file in your user directory. There should be a line that says ###############################################################################
# ADD YOUR OWN CUSTOMIZATIONS AFTER THIS COMMENT
###############################################################################


Then type in

stty erase ^?

and any other commands that you'd like to start on login. I like tcsh, so I also wrote that underneath the stty erase, for instance.

[ginoledesma]

I recall in some systems pressing CTRL-H (^H) erases the previous character.