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From: "Noel L Yap" <yap_noel@jpmorgan.com>
To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:08:47 -0400
Subject: Re: Keyboard problems
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cgf@cygnus.com on 2000.07.30 13:41:13
>On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:27:20PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>>On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:12:51PM +0200, Jonas Jensen wrote:
>>>> The delete key doesn't work, it just produces a ~ and a beep. Pressing ^D
>>>> works, but it'd be a lot easier to just press delete...
>>
>>I'm stupid.  I was translating Delete into Backspace.
>>
>>I have duplicated this behavior but it is no different than 1.1.2 or 1.0, so
this
>>bug was not newly introduced to 1.1.3.
>
>FWIW, Linux does the same thing with the Delete key.  I don't know why.
>The key is properly defined in both termcap and terminfo.  It sounds like
>a problem with either bash or readline.

I've been seeing the same thing on Solaris since I've started using a PC to
telnet to the Solaris box.  I just confirmed that it works perfectly when using
a Solaris box directly.  It may be an interaction of the keyboard with either
bash or readline but I'm not too familiar with how all this works at this level.

Noel


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