Re: Spectrum character filter

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

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.

Look in the "Online Display..." item in the "Settings" menu.  There is
an item in there called "Delete Key = Backspace".  (I'm using Spectrum
2.0, but this feature was also there in 1.0.)

> When I'm in a UNIX shell, hitting delete normally produces garbage,
> but CTRL-H works, and seems to work everywhere else too.

You can usually just reconfigure UNIX to use DEL as the rubout key,
with:

stty erase \^\?

I have this in my ".cshrc" file.


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