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Re: linux 8.3.25Tue: zephyr

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Feb 14 01:50:36 2000

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To: Daniel A Shiau <shiau_d@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:22:14 EST."
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:50:32 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> 	Backspace doesn't work to delete... must use the "delete" key

Thanks for reporting this.  This bug results from a disagreement
between xterm and the default tty setings in Red Hat Linux.  The same
problem exists on Solaris, and we work around it by providing modified
xterm app-defaults.  We'll probably do something similar for RH-Linux
soon.

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