On Wed, 12 May 2004, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > My understanding is that DEL is a control character and that it should > be (essentially) ignored when written to a screen. > > This is the case for old versions of xterm (e.g. XFree86 4.0.1(139) on > Red Hat Linux 7.0). > > This is not the case for newer versions (e.g. XFree86 4.2.0(165) on > Red Hat Linux 8.0 or XFree86 4.3.99.5(179) on Fedora Core 1). DEL > seems to be displayed as a SPace. > > An easy test is to run the following bash command: > echo -e 'X\177Y' > I think that the output should be: > XY > On the newer systems, the output appears to be: > X Y
hmm - I seem to see the same thing (running a "printf 'X\177Y'" on Solaris). I'll look into this (cannot recall what change would have introduced it). thanks. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
