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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:06:59 -0400
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Subject: Re: Backspace
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 6/21/2012 9:09 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>
>> At this point I'd revert to defaults until I saw a problem worse than
>> those caused by the non-default setting.
>
> I think this is the way to go...
>>
>> If you're only interacting with cygwin and linux at this point, you should
>> be safe. Solaris and the other Unixes can be a real pain about the whole ^H
>> vs ^? thing, but Solaris has gotten a lot better in the last few years and
>> Unix has largely disappeared (I haven't had to interact with a Unix box in a
>> decade or so).
>
> I concur here too. Solaris always gets this wrong IIRC. Plus I grew up on
> HP_UX so between those older Unixes I probably came up with that setting had
> it's been carrying on ever since...

For what it's worth, I have no erase set on my local Windows client
but erase is set in .profile on the remote servers as ^H and I have no
issues.  I log into both Sun and HP_UX daily.

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