stty erase?

[Charlie Farinella]

Hi,

Probably a rudimentary question and maybe off topic, but it's making me
nutty.

This relates to the backspace key using vim in a terminal.  I find no
consistency from installation to installation.  Some of these machines
work as expected, others print ^? when I strike the backspace key, but
work if I hold down the shift key.  One machine (Slackware) works ok
when I login as a user using xterm or rxvt, but not if I su to root.  If
I use aterm then it doesn't work no matter who I am.  Most of these are
RedHat installations various versions, two Slackware, one OpenBSD.  

How is this controlled, and what do I need to set it to?

--charlie

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