From: David Barnett (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Tue 16-Apr-2002 01:35:30 PM EDT
Although I haven't really used the feature and can't comment on whether it will
fix your particular problem. Putty supports telnet as well as ssh. I believe
you can modify which key's do backspacing as well, nice for those applications
which don't allow ssh(mudding etc).
-Dave
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:20:25PM -0400, LANE WILLIAM HOY wrote:
> Have you thought about switching to ssh? I have never had that problem
> with openssh. 'putty' (for MS-Windows) and NiftyTelnet/SSH (for Macs) are
> nice replacements for MS-telnet.
> Lane Hoy
> ([e-mail suppressed])
>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Dave Lovelace wrote:
>
> > We're getting complaints from the endusers, who are used another type of
> > system, on this.
> >
> > When they (or we) telnet in, if we mistype at a login: prompt, they can't
> > backspace over it. It echoes ^H, and apparently that goes into the buffer
> > but does not cause the preceding character to be ignored.
> >
> > It looks as though a DEL character (ASCII 127) is the rubout - but the
> > emulation in use does not produce this, of course. And once the user
> > is logged in, it knows that backspace is backspace. (At that point, of
> > course, it knows what terminal type it's dealing with.)
> >
> > We're running RH 6.2 & 7.2, for what it's worth.
> >
> > Is there any kind of configuration entry anywhere that controls this? AFAICS,
> > no one is ever likely to log into these particular systems with a terminal type
> > that uses ^? for its backspace; and if someone does, well, let THEM have this
> > problem, not the users who use it all the time. Switching is very definitely
> > OK, but I don't know how to do it. (If we were coming in serial, I'd have
> > some idea. But this is telnet.)
> >
> > Thanks for advice from anyone who knows.
> > --
> > - Dave Lovelace
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