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.
I'm puzzled by the reference to #165 (I have several binaries on this machine, and it appears to me that the problem was introduced after #170 - I see it in #174 (but don't have in-between versions)). But I'll find out once I isolate it. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
