The problem is with xterm.  It worked ok for a while at one patch level, then
I applied a newer patch, and it broke again.

For a time, I had fixed the problem with the xmodmap command in my .xinitrc,
but noticed that it totally messes up the backspace for mozilla.  I will try
to find the patch level that had resolve the problem, since it is broken
again for me.  I will forward it on to you.

bob

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:02:47PM +0200, Remco Post wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:08:28PM -0400, Richard Sims wrote:
> >
> > Remco - Your Unix 'stty' settings are probably at the root of this.
> >         Do 'stty -a' or the equivalent and check your "erase" spec.
>
> Which is intresting. Both on console and in xterm erase is ^?. I suspect
> this is some sort of bug somewhere in some Linux thingy that has to do
> with X, rather than something to do with dsmadmc. Now I was hoping for
> somebody tot tell me that he/she tested this on eg. RedHat and found
> that things do work over there, or not.
>
> I assume that dsmadmc does part of it's terminal handling itself rather
> than leaving that to the os. Erase (backspace) does work as expected in
> X when I enter my username/password, it breaks once I'm on the TSM
> prompt...
>
> > Different flavors of Unix do this stuff differently, so check your man page.
> > (This stuff is 1970s and very ugly.)  Doing 'stty ek' or 'stty sane' may fix
> > for you.  That which is called the Backspace key on keyboards may actually
> > be generating a Delete - and to further confuse things, may be mapped to
> > something else.
> >
>
> Which is why I told you all about my x-keymapping etc...
>
> >   Richard Sims, BU
>
> --
>
> Remco