Re: No backspace key in the psql command-line tool?

From: Nils Zonneveld <nils(at)mbit(dot)nl>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: No backspace key in the psql command-line tool?
Date: 2001-04-17 21:56:56
Message-ID: 3ADCBC1E.3B8475FA@mbit.nl
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Rob Yampolsky wrote:
>
> Stupid question.
>
> How do you get the backspace key to work in the psql command-line
> tool? Just echos ^H's. I'm running on Mandrake Linux 7.2, and it works
> from the system console, but not from a konsole X terminal (or from a
> vt220-based telnet session from Windows - using CRT's telnet).
>
> Curses programs don't seem to have this problem, but then again, it
> doesn't look like psql uses curses anyway. But I have seen a similar
> problem when I telnet from a konsole window on my Linux box into an AIX
> box.
>

Try another telnet client.

Nils

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