Re: lynx-dev Lynx Print Option-and-BackSpace Trouble

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:29:43PM -0500, Leslie Fairall wrote:
> Ok. I typed stty from the shell prompt and got a bunch of settings. The
> shell is on a Freebsd machine and is using a vt100 terminal. Can you tell

"vt100 terminal" could mean a real terminal, or more likely a terminal
emulator such as xterm.

> me what stty settings would be needed and how to go about changing them
> myself? Or does this sort of thing need to be done by a system
> administrator? Thanks.

for example (in your .cshrc):

        stty erase ^H

(the stty manpage gives enough info).

but more likely the choice of $TERM is incorrect.
 
> On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:31:06PM -0500, Leslie Fairall wrote:
> > > I'm on another ISP, and I have the same problem with append to a local
> > > file option. Do you think that that there is a flaw in the way that lynx
> > > is compiled? It would be helpful to know what is causing this problem so
> > > that we can tell our system administrators how to fix it.
> >
> > it sounds as if your stty settings and/or $TERM do not all agree with the
> > terminal.
> >
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