Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk>  wrote:
 > > To make the backspace key send ^H change KS_Delete to KS_BackSpace
 > > in keycode 14. You can also do this with wsconsctl without
 > > changing the kernel, for the details have a look at the excellent
 > > mail on this subject a few days ago by Greg A. Woods.
 > 
 > Indeed, have put that in my wscons.conf (and yes, Greg's email has
 > cleared a lot of stuff up, but I'm still clued out on a few things).
 > 
 > > Don't forget to put the stty erase '^H' in your shell startup
 > > file.

My favourite answer to this is something that Dean Huxley showed me:

	alias ^H stty erase ^H
	alias ^? stty erase ^?

where "^H" and "^?" are the actual control characters themselves.  Then
after you login to a machine, the first thing you do is hit the key you 
want to be the backspace key, and viola.