Telnet Pro emulator, LINUX and filePro (resolved)

[Dan Snyder]

Thanks for the info everyone.

I used stty intr "^?" erase "^H"
to fix the delete key problem.  

"stty intr '^C' erase '^H' " did not work, but typing CTRL-C where you would
normally use the del key did work.

I'll take another look at PuTTY next week using the info provided.

Dan Snyder
IT Manager
Mercury Electronics
717-854-9557 ext.224



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Fairlight
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 6:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Telnet Pro emulator, LINUX and filePro

With neither thought nor caution, Bill Campbell blurted:
> >
> >stty intr "^?" erase "^H"
> 
> I strongly prefer "stty intr '^C' erase '^H' ", setting control-C

I strongly prefer it as well.  Heck, I've been proclaiming to the linux
folks that that's The Way God Intended It for years (to no avail--they swear
it's standard vt100 behaviour and won't be changed, end of story).

The only reason I said to use ^? was because the OP explicitly complained
his -Delete- key wasn't acting as INTR.  Prefereence didn't enter into that
half of my post.

> >And make darned sure you set your emulator to use ^H for backspace.
> 
> Or manually type ctrl-h which doesn't take your fingers from the home 
> keys :-).

In PuTTY 0.54 and later (first time I -noticed- it biting me by accident if
I had a lazy pinky I didn't release shift with) the shift-Backspace
generates ^? while Backspace generates ^H (assuming you configured it for
that), so you can get both from home row as needed.

It's both a blessing and a curse.  Previous to the change, there was no real
way to get the character.  After the change, I had to learn to never have
shift down while correcting errors (say, at the start of a sentence or
proper name) on the fly.

I guess it's more blessing than curse though.  I can learn to do something,
but I can't force a program to do what it's not coded to do in the first
place.

mark->
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