Re: No backspace key in the psql command-line tool?

depending on your client, you should just be able to turn naclspace into a
delete and a delte into a backspace.
in SecureCRT its found in your connection profile under your keyboard
settings

you could also try running VT100 as well

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Yampolsky" <ryampols(at)cjds(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 1:49 PM
Subject: No backspace key in the psql command-line tool?

> Stupid question.
>
> How do you get the backspace key to work in the psql command-line
> tool? Just echos ^H's. I'm running on Mandrake Linux 7.2, and it works
> from the system console, but not from a konsole X terminal (or from a
> vt220-based telnet session from Windows - using CRT's telnet).
>
> Curses programs don't seem to have this problem, but then again, it
> doesn't look like psql uses curses anyway. But I have seen a similar
> problem when I telnet from a konsole window on my Linux box into an AIX
> box.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
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