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# 1  
Old 10-11-2004
Question getting rid of ^H
Hello everybody

I have a very annoying problem on my Solaris (Unix in general) servers. When I open a shell and press the backspace button, it results in a ^H character being printed on screen. I can resolve it by typing stty erase <backspace>, but does anyone know how I can prevent the problem (add something to the profile perhaps).

Thanks
# 2  
Old 10-11-2004
..........
try this:

$HOME/.profile

if [ "`tty`" != "not a tty" ]
then
stty erase \^h
fi


greetings PRESSY
# 3  
Old 10-11-2004
Or see Response 7 on the same type of question on computing.net.
# 4  
Old 10-11-2004
Computer It worked
Nice one PRESSY. It sorted my problem.

Cheers mate
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