Subject: Re: ssh and the backspace key
To: henry nelson <netb@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/14/2002 17:58:38
On Saturday, 14 September 2002 at 17:16:38 +0900, henry nelson wrote:
> _Finally_ got around to getting ssh/sshd working.  One snag I've run into
> is that the behavior of the BS key has changed from what it was with telnet.
> I get "^?" printed on the screen rather than erasure of the character before
> the prompt ("^H").  Is there some setting I don't know about, or is this
> a problem with the client (TTSSH)?

I'd guess it's the client.  ^? is DEL.  If you can't change TTSSH, you
can do it with stty:

  stty erase ^?

(Press the backspace key for ^?).

Greg
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