Ishaaq,
I had the same problem myself. I work at IBM, and when I posted
the very same question out on the IBM internal linux forum, the response I
got back was that the behaviour of the backspace key on Unix systems are
really nonstandard. The simplest way out of this would be to do an 'stty
erase ^H' in the .profile (but you would have to detect that you are
telneting in - or else your console login will get screwed!).
As to the term type, what I did was disassemble the Linux terminfo
definition (which IIRC produced a different result from the TERMCAP
definition), copied this file over to the AIX box, and compiled it over
there. I cant remeber though whether it worked 100% for me. I seem to
recall that I had some problems with the top of file in 'vi' - but whether
it was in TERM=linux or TERM=vt100 escapes me at the moment.
Regards,
Kenneth
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On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Ishaaq K Chandy wrote:
> Hi all,
> We have an AIX server at work. Additionaly I have a Linux box, all
> the others are windows boxes. The backspace key on the Linux
> machine works fine normally but ceases to be recongnised when I
> telnet to the AIX machine. Any ideas?
>
> However AIX recognises the backspace keys on the windows machines.
>
> I have set my TERM=vt100 as AIX does'nt recognise TERM=linux.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ishaaq Chandy
>
>
