Can anyone point me to a good resource on the different handling of backspaces amoung different *nixs and different apps? I have encountered a few applications that print ^H instead of deleting if run from a Gnometerm, but work fine under a regular xterm. I have servers that refuse to acknowledge the backspace and delete keys with some telnet clients and not with others. I even have a HP-UX box where logging in as a user causes both backspace and delete to act as extra return keys, but logging in as root works fine. (you can then su to another user, but su -l causes the same problem)
Is there a "Complete Idiots guide to using backspace in UNIX land" anywhere? Or should I just learn to not make mistakes. :-)
- Doug
