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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:18:31 -0600
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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.

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