Re: Delete key or me?

["David Chiu" <none@nowhere.org>]

This is "normal." The delete key outputs the character corresponding to
ASCII 255/DEL (I think) and the printable version of that happens to be the
square checkerboard. Applications coded to recognize it as delete key will
function. ProDOS BASIC.SYSYEM isn't one of them. As you have observed,
backspace keys to back space is the left arrow key (corresponding to ASCII
8/BS) and UP/DOWN arrow keys does not work (without ESC prefix...)

"ricuoS" <Soucirdeletethisbit@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I recently was given an Apple IIe with 2 Disk IIs attached, and a color
> monitor.  I sucessfully booted from the "Apple II System Disk 3.2" I
> downloaded from the Apple site (I made a 5.25" floppy with an Apple IIe
> card in my LC 575), and exited to BASIC.  But when I am typing in BASIC,
> whenever I hit the "Delete" key, it outputs a solid square (much like
> the blinking cursor square) on the screen.  I can only get rid of these
> characters (and other typing mistakes, for that matter) by using the
> left arrow key and typing over them.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?  I only recently returned to the Apple II
> world.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Joan
>