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I had myself screwed up. Its not the backspace that puts in special characters.
Its when you arrow left.
# cat /esc/hosts
Like if I arrow over to replace the s with a t

Monitor and keyboard at the SCO machine. Putty on Windows 10 connecting over the network. QVTterm on a Windows 2000 VB image.
All 3 have the same results.

That is in the OP

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SCO UNIX 3.2.4.2 does everything in command prompt(/bin/sh). No desktop.

I got to thinking that that was going to be the answer but I am not used to using sh. I'm more tuned to how bash works.


I was wondering if there was a way to clear a wrongly entered character....

# ps -p $$
PID TTY TIME COMMAND
954 p2 0:01 sh
# echo $SHELL
/bin/sh

is there a way to overwrite what I have typed in rather than having to hit enter and re enter the command?


SCO UNIX 3.2.4.2