[PLUG] Keyboard query

[T]

Hi all,

  I've gotten a query from a friend of mine that I'm just not sure how
to address.  The initial problem was that his backspace key wasn't
deleting the character to the left of the cursor until after he logged
in - if he mis-typed his login name, he was unable to correct it (the
"famous" ^H problem).  I was pretty sure I recognized that, & pointed
him to this page 

  http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html

which helped, but  then he replied saying that his break key wasn't
working the way that he'd grown to expect when using WinDoze.  His
distro is RH, but I'm not certain of the version - probably 7.x (I'd
know more, but he's about 1500 miles away).

In any case, his description of the problem is below.  I've been
looking in the "Keyboard and Console HOWTO" (as well as the man pages
for toe, tic, terminfo & tset) but I'm now getting a bit sleepy & I've
not yet seen it...  Will tackle it again in the morning...

Many thanks for any enlightenment...

T.


> Ok, I'm not completely clueless.  I traced the commands back to
> /etc/bashrc.  I think that's the file I need to insert some command(s)
> into to sort out the backspace/delete and break key issues.  I found
> that 'stty -a' will show me what my settings are.  Eol and eol2 are
both
> undefined.  That's why my break key doesn't work.  They should show up
> as 'eol = ^@ eol2 ^@'.  Now, for the part I can't seem to find any
> information on:  How do I set them to their proper values?  
> I've tried ...
> 'stty eol ^@', but that has no effect.  
> 'stty eol \@' results in 'eol = @'.  
> 'stty eol \^\@' results in 'eol = <undef>'.
> 'stty \0 results in 'eol = 0'.
> 
> Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
> 
> Thoughts?


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