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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:19:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Hannu Koivisto <azure AT iki DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: How to make Cygwin map backspace to ASCII DEL?
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Hannu Koivisto wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I just upgraded all Cygwin packages to their latest versions.
> Although I don't use Cygwin a lot, I'm fairly sure that I would
> have noticed if backspace in an ordinary Windows console window had
> ended up as ^H to a Cygwin application (zsh in this case) running
> in that console window, which is what happens now.
>
> Anyway, whatever the old behaviour was, I want backspace to
> generate ASCII DEL (^?) and not ^H --- how can I make Cygwin do
> that?

"man stty"
	Igor
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