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From: "Paul Derbyshire" <derbyshire@globalserve.net>
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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:01:07 -0400
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Subject: bash and the delete key
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Cygwin's bash seems not to interpret the delete key correctly. The 
backspace key nukes the character behind the cursor, as expected. The 
del key doesn't nuke the character ahead of the curser however. It 
inserts a tilde instead. I assume this is something related to either 
a bash setting or a terminal setting, but I ran out of clues (read: 
relevant information in obvious places in the bash man page) without 
fixing it a while back.

I might also note that the gmane news server has not been a success 
for me. I tried to get at these lists as apparently gatewayed there, 
and did the news server's registration thing, but after days of xnews 
reporting zero new articles and my own posting-attempt (on that cron 
problem, and which also was used to trigger the registration process) 
not showing up I gave up on gmane. Obviously something went wrong -- 
either it's down, or it's allergic to my news client, or the 
registration silently failed in some way and didn't bother to produce 
an error message and information on how to fix the problem. The 
registration confirm message did show up nearly immediately at my 
Hotmail account when I sent the cron related post, and I followed its 
instructions within the hour, so I definitely did nothing obviously 
wrong or clueless...

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