backspace, delete woes

[Grumpy_Penguin]

On Monday 28 August 2006 08:21 am, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 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.
And get away with it
>
> --
> Mike   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
> "it stands to reason that they weren't always called the ancients."
>                                                       --  Daniel Jackson