How to enable key Backspace?

[Rashid Ali]

I am using RedHat Linux 6.2. I can use the key Backspace to remove typo error. But when I telnet to HP-UX server, It cannot work and simply display ^? when hitting Backspace. I run "stty" and it shows as below,
speed 9600 baud; evenp hupcl -cread
intr = ^C; erase = ^H; kill = ^U;
swtch ;
brkint -inpck icrnl -ixany ixoff onlcr tab3
-iexten echo echoe echok
-echoctl -echoke

How can I enable Backspace under the telnet session?

Thanks for help,

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

#stty erase ^?(Backspace)

[Evert Jan van Ramselaar]

Try this:
# stty erase [Backspace-key]

(You could do this in your .profile)

[Rashid Ali]

Yes, It works. But, is there any way to fix it? So that I don't need to run this command every time I telnet to HP-UX server from Linux and at the same time I can also telnet to the same server from Win98/NT. If I add this command into .profile then once I log on to the server from Win98/NT, I still got the same problem, Is that true?

[Mark Fenton]

I don't think I understand your question. The command, if located in the .profile on the HP box will execute whether you logon from Linux or anywhere else. Do you mean to ask how to set this property for just your Linux box, because when you execute the command from the Windows client, this fix causes problems?