Re: Spectrum character filter

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4mm8df$1b0@asia.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>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!

   You can fix this on the unix side fairly trivially by executing one
of these commands, depending on which appears on the screen when you
hit delete:

stty erase ^h
stty erase ^?

   (Note that the ^h or ^? is 2 characters, not the representation of
ascii 08 or $7F)

   Tcsh and other competent shells also manage to accept either, not
just being stuck with one.

Nathan Mates


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