Backspace and Putty

[Bruce Easton]

On 1/23/14 11:37 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> On 1/22/2014 4:08 PM, Seth wrote:
>> I am sure that this has been addressed ad nauseum, but I can't find the
>> solution.
>>
>> 2 Servers, Linux, FP 5.6, TERM=xterm; no PFTERM (not sure if that exists,
>> seem to recall it though).
>>
>> Putty for access from WINxp, WIN 7 and 8 desktops,
>>
>> Settings in Putty:
>> Terminal=Linux
>> Backspace can be either Ctrl-H or Ctrl-? but works the same.
>>
>> Backspace works fine in everything except in (only some) parts of FP, it
>> moves the cursor ahead instead of backspacing.
>>
>> I can't find any edits to apply to FPtermcap.
> Check the "xterm" entry in fp/termcap.  If it has "tc=linux", then check the
> "linux" entry.
>
> You need to make sure that there is a ":bs:" value in that entry.  That's
> the flag that specifies that the terminal is capable of backspacing.
>
Thanks - that works here, Ken.  That was missing from the linux filepro 
termcap entry on this older linux box.  Since I didn't have anything 
passworded for menus, etc., the only place I was seeing it was for 
processing search, and now backspace is doing a destructive backspace 
which seems to be consistent with the behavior on other *nix boxes.

Bruce