[pups] solution for the disklabel

[Pete Turnbull]

On Jan 30, 16:03, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> > Maybe it wants a DEL character instead of backspace (backspace *is*
ctrl-H,
> > shown as ^H or ^h).  Change it on the terminal by going into setup, or
use
> > stty on the BSD system to change the delete character (stty del '^h').
>
> On a real VT100 you cannot get the delete key to generate a backspace. He
> must be pressing the backspace key, or he's not using a VT100 at all, but
> instead some emulator, which isn't doing things the VT100 way...

Of course.  I've spent too long using my VT420.  A real VT102 has separate
delete and backspace keys.  Probably he's using some not-really-VT102
emulation in an xterm window or some emulator.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York