Annoying screen backspace problem

[Bill McGonigle]

On Mar 29, 2005, at 22:02, Ben Scott wrote:

> One thing I've always admired about Unix is that it no other system
> has more trouble going backwards....

It's true - why is this so hard?  Is there a design deficit or just a 
common programming mistake?

I first remember having to put stty erase commands in my .tcshrc on an 
VAX running ULTRIX c. '91.  It hasn't really improved since then 
(though my FC3 machines seem to behave better).

-Bill
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