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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
Testing (w/ ObHack)
Article: 7868 of alt.hackers From: pronell@uslink.net (Joshua Malmquist) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Testing (w/ ObHack) Date: 24 May 1995 22:34:01 -0500 Organization: USLink Communications Lines: 42 Approved: pronell@uslink.net Message-ID: 3q0tr9$afn@link.uslink.net NNTP-Posting-Host: link.uslink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
Well, obviously this is just a simple test. Last time didn't work, but I'm pretty sure the method's right... ObHack: Oh, god, I dunno... well this is pretty pitiful, but... I taught myself Unix, as I have taught myself MOST of my computer knowledge... don't consider myself much of a hacker, but at least very curious. I didn't feel like learning vi, so I was using pico when I configured this account. The default backspace character is ^H, and I used a couple other Unix systems that used the delete character (shown as ^?) instead. Instead of switching terminal emulation files in Qmpro for each system I use, I tried to find a way to switch those characters around. At first I thought it might be a set or setenv, but that came up empty, then I thought maybe it would be a termcap or terminal setting thing... eventually found the 'tset' command, and saw in the man file for tset exactly what I had to do. Well it wasn't quite as easy as just adding the right line to my .cshrc file, because as you may know, pico will recognize BOTH ^H and ^? as backspace characters. the line tset -e^? wouldn't work... I just ended up doing an echo tset -e^? > temp and reading temp into my .cshrc file, before I realized it woulda been much easier to use 'edit' to add that line in. Oh well, that 'hack' if you can call something that pitiful a hack, was more the process than the method used. (Now let's hope this goes through -- I'd hate to have to retype all of that. ;) -- ============ Joshua Malmquist pronell@uslink.com Hobbs or Pronell on IRC (Poet and amateur writer, computer enthusiast and all around twisted guy.)