Re: Spectrum character filter

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <4mm8df$1b0@asia.lm.com> mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)
writes:
>Hello all.  I'm trying to do something which should be relatively simple, 
>but is not covered in any of the Spectrum manuals.  I'm trying to get 
>spectrum to transmit a CTRL-H when I hit the delete key.  When I'm in a 
>UNIX shell, hitting delete normally produces garbage, but CTRL-H works, 
>and seems to work everywhere else too.  So, anybody have any idea what 
>the control characters I should plug into the filter are?  Thanks!

I can't help with Spectrum (I'm a Kermit user myself), but I can point out
this is a problem that can be easily fixed on the UNIX end.

If you want your UNIX account to recognize your "raw" DELETE key, type
this:

     stty erase ^?

(where "^?" means to press the DELETE key...depending on your shell, you
may need to precede the DELETE key with the control-V key).

You can make this setting permanent by putting the command into your login
script (.login if you use csh or tcsh, .profile if you use a member of the
sh family).


In fact, you can use this method to configure *any* key as your UNIX erase-
the-previous-character key.  For obvious reasons, I don't recommend
selecting a printable character...

               - Neil Parker
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