Mac Parallels and the Delete key

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, Larry Hoover wrote:
>      Has anyone used the Parallels Desktop on a Mac?  I have a customer 
>who uses a Mac and Parallels to telnet/ssh to SCO Unix for a filePro 
>application.  This works fine except when you use the delete key, which 
>locks up the application.

IHMO, the proper solution is to teach users to use CTRL-C instead
of the DEL key and add "stty intr '^C'" to the .profiles.

Every other OS on which FilePro runs uses CTRL-C so why continue
a bad practice for a dead OS?

>The details:
>-Parallels Desktop version simulates Windows 7 on a Mac.
>-Hit delete to get out of a record, and it works but then the keyboard 
>is disabled for the filePro app until you log out and log back in.
>-It worked fine on the XP version of Parallels but not on 7.
>-I tried 3 terminal emulators (Anita, Anzio, and putty) and they all 
>have the same problem.
>-It's the delete key with the backspace symbol on it, the other delete 
>key has no effect at all.
>-If I use VNC from the Parallels Desktop to remotely control another PC, 
>then it works.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Larry Hoover
>
>_______________________________________________
>Filepro-list mailing list
>Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes
>http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list
>

-- 
Bill
-- 
INTERNET:   bill at celestial.com  Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
URL: http://www.celestial.com/  PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
Voice:          (206) 236-1676  Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820
Fax:            (206) 232-9186  Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792

Historically, inflation is a classic game of legal plunder, more
effective than taxes since the legalized theft is concealed.
  -- T. Hunt Tooley http://mises.org/story/3292