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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting stty erase ^h not working for backspace Post 302508515 by kunwar on Monday 28th of March 2011 11:05:41 AM
Old 03-28-2011
I tried stty erase ^H
It doesnt work still Smilie

Pressing Backspace is giving question marks as shown below:
sdfd^?^?^?^?^?^?^?
 

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sim(5)								File Formats Manual							    sim(5)

NAME
sim, SIM - Software phrase input method DESCRIPTION
The phrase input method is an input method that is commonly used in a Chinese environment. The software phrase input method (SIM) is a a mechanism supported by the Asian tty driver, atty and the simd daemon through the utx facility (see atty(7), simd(8), and utx(7)). The stty command activates the software phrase input method, while the phrase utility creates and manages the phrase database (see stty(1) and phrase(1)). Changes to the phrase database may not be reflected in SIM sessions that were started before the changes were made. Therefore, users have to stop and then restart SIM sessions using the stty command to have access to the changed phrase database. SEE ALSO
Commands: phrase(1), stty(1), simd(8), utxd(8) Files: atty(7), utx(7) sim(5)
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