* Jim Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-05-13 21:11:57 -0700]: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:12:48PM -0600, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > > What exactly are you referring to when you say ^H? The backspace key? Or > > the actual ^H character? > > Sorry, that "^H" notation is an old Unix convention for Control-H--- > the control key pressed simultaneously with the "h" key. I used both > "Control-H" and "^H" in my original post interchangably, thinking it > might be less boring. Maybe it was just confusing. Some archaeological > terminals made it difficult or impossible to distinguish the code for > ^H from BS, since the ascii for H is 0x48 and BS is 0x08, and Control > typically drops the high bit. But modern keyboards and tty drivers > easily can tell the two apart.
That's not always true. Look at the output of "stty -a" if it contains something like "erase=^H" then your Backspacekey (if it's working) is producing ^H. Nicolas
