backspace, delete woes

[Michael Hennebry]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 21Aug2006 10:50, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> | On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | On the remote machine it now tells me
> | eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^?; erase2 = ^H; intr = ^C; kill = ^U;
>
> Hmm, erase2! New lore! Thanks, I could do with that on several machines.

Not all that new.  The greeting:
> Last login: Mon Aug 21 12:56:28 2006 from 24-119-255-8.cpe
> Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE (WEB43A) #0: Wed Jul 25 16:05:53 CDT 2001
>
> Welcome to FreeBSD!

Cameron continues:
> You try and make the place as secure as you can, but you don't reckon
> with the kind of people who try and break into an explosives factory
> with an oxy-acetylene torch.

Whence this?  Love it.

Of course, the really dangerous ones are the ones that can do it.

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Mike   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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