Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!umn-d-ub!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: oops. i made a mistake in my request for termcap help. Message-ID: <1989Sep29.005506.21910@NCoast.ORG> Date: 29 Sep 89 00:55:06 GMT References: <6594@thor.acc.stolaf.edu> <1989Sep29.005125.21813@NCoast.ORG> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.wanted Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 19 As quoted from <1989Sep29.005125.21813@NCoast.ORG> by allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery): +--------------- | It's not your termcap. Check the terminal set-up; you'll probably find an | entry that says that backspace is "destructive". This means that ^H makes the +--------------- Whoops. Another possibility is that *tab* is being "destructive". The fix for this: if it's a setup option as outlined in my message, fix it. Otherwise, it might be a problem with your Unix stty settings; try "stty tabs" followed by "tset -Q". (My, aren't terminals *fun*? ;-) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp, 161-7070 BALLBERY (MCI), ALLBERY (Delphi), B.ALLBERY (GEnie) Is that enough addresses for you? no? then: allbery@uunet.UU.NET (c.s.misc)