summary unix profile question

From: Sally Weldon <sweldon_at_austinc.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:14:51 -0600

>Thanks to Jay Leafey - we appreciate your help and to the others who
>answered:
>
>Original Question:
>
>Question - once you have "su" or returned from a program to the prompt, you
>loose the ability to backspace. If you try to set stty you get the
>following error:
>>>stty erase ^H
>unknown mode: erase
>
>Ctrl "H" doesn't work either.
>
>***************************************************************************
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>**
>Solution:
>Danny Petterson [danny.petterson_at_dmsn.dk]
>J Bacher [jb_at_jbacher.com]
>Darryl Cook [dlc_at_cs.appstate.edu]
>jay.leafey_at_mindless.com
>
>This is what we used:
>
>Try 'set -o emacs'. ****(in the .ksh profile for unix users and in ROOT's
>.profile)***** This fixes a whole lot of goodies, particularly
>command-line recall and correct delete-key behaviour.
>
>Good luck!
>Jay
>---
>Jay Leafey
>Memphis, TN
>
>_________________________________
>Sally Weldon
>Programmer/Analyst
>Austin College
>Sherman, Texas 75090
>903.831.2053
Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 15:06:35 NZDT

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