Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4280ECE7.3000609@etr-usa.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:18:31 -0600 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer] References: <051020051547.6892.4280D77E000CE20C00001AEC22007503300A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <20050510164727.GO3375@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20050510164727.GO3375@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Can anybody tell me what the `stty erase' setting is good for in > /etc/profile? I'm using tcsh, so I'm not bothered by this stuff... This is fine as long are you're within your shell, or another program that is tolerant of the two different ways of saying 'backspace'. If your 'erase' stty variable isn't set correctly, a number of things fail to deal with backspace correctly. For just one example, password entry when ssh'ing to another machine requires a correct 'erase' setting. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/