Cannot use Stty erase in Exceed

[Michael Elleby III_1]

Have a client attempting to open telnet session on HP server. Although I have stty erase "^H" command in .login, user still cannot use the backspace or delete key to back over characters. I've looked at the keyboard config in Exceed and attempted to remap keyboard delete key to backspace key and assigned it the hpDeleteChar function, to no avail...

Any takers?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Michael:

Make sure that you have set 'DTSOURCEPROFILE=true' in '.dtprofile'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Michael Elleby III_1]

James-

User is not running CDE. User is just opening an telnet to get to this server..

Problem is, any attempts to setup backspace does not work.

Mike

[Dave Chamberlin]

You might have the user (or you as that user) do an stty command after logging in to show what the terminal settings are - you might see something useful.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Michael,

Have the user run
stty -a
after login & see what the erase value is set to.
If strange have them do
stty erase
If that now back spaces correctly, just set that up in the user's .profile, .login, whatever.

Rgds,
Jeff

[George Abraham_1]

hai

what is the Users login Shell..stty sometimes gives trouble in C.. In Ksh it works fine..

Stty erase ^H

regards
george

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

Run stty -a on the user terminal and see the output.

You should be very careful in trping this

stty erase "^H"

Use the Shift and 6 for getting --> ^
Use Shift and h for getting --> H

Then do stty -a again to see that it has been set to ^h

Piyush

[Michael Elleby III_1]

Here's where we stand guys:

Firstly, thanx for the suggestions...

I issued the stty as the user and noted that even though I had included the actual stty erase "^H" command in his .login, his .cshrc, and the global one /etc/csh.login, that somehow, it was being wiped out/not being set.

Currently, I added this to his .cshrc after I did the stty.. Logged in as the user, and it seems to work, however, the ultimate test is when I have the user login himself and give it a try..

Cheers!

Mike-

[Pete Randall]

I don't know if this carries over to Exceed, but your issue sounds very similar to one we see with WRQ Reflections. We have to have the keyboards settings thus:
Backspace key sends delete - not checked
Allow clients to remap keyboard - checked

Hope this helps,
Pete

[Tom Maloy]

Two possibilities:

(1) an error in the .login/.cshrc file is occurring before the stty command is executed, bombing out of the script.

(2) ^H is the wrong choice. When I telnet into an HP box with Reflections, I get ^? when I hit the backspace key. What does your user get?

Tom

[Rich Wright]

Have you verified that csh is his default login shell?

[Mark Greene_1]

I am running exceed (v6.2.0.0), telneting to HP's. Here's the stty settings in my .profile:

stty -ixany -iexten
stty erase ^H
stty kill ^U
stty intr ^C

Make sure that the TERM is set to either xterm or vt100. If the TERM is something else, you may have a problem with how backspace has been defined in the terminfo file for that emulation.

Also, make sure that you are NOT executing in the .profile/.login any stty sane, reset, or tset that may monkey with the backspace setting.

From this client's connection, do a "ttytype" and see what it returns. Mine returns "vt100", even though the TERM variable is set to "xterm", but the backspace works ok.

HTH
mark

[Michael Elleby III_1]

To finish this one off, as I had indicated in my last reply. Somehow, the stty command was either not being executed or the setting being crunched when the user would login...

Once I was able to confirm by modifying his .cshrc to issue the command, and I was finally able to make contact with the user and have the user logged in, everything worked great, and the user is happy...

Again, thanx for your suggestions..

Mike