Bug 325 - boot -s SH is confused by BACKSPACE <> 0x08 FDIV019
Summary: boot -s SH is confused by BACKSPACE <> 0x08 FDIV019
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 1995-04-09 13:20 UTC by uhclem%nemesis
Modified: 1995-04-09 13:20 UTC (History)
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Description uhclem%nemesis 1995-04-09 13:20:51 UTC
[FDIV019]

When you tell the system to boot -s, it comes up and says:

	Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:

If you press RETURN, you get:

	erase *, kill ^U, intr ^C

where * is a symbol that looks like a stick drawing of a house.

This is yet-another symptom of erase not being set to ^H and the BACKSPACE
key not generating ^H and programs not coping with it.

Fix: 

Return erase character to being 0x08 and make the BACKSPACE key produce
a 0x08. 

*END*
Comment 1 Joerg Wunsch freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1995-04-15 15:59:19 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This was already obsoleted at time of submission, kbdtables.h 
rev 1.28 reverted back to the prevoius behaviour: 

revision 1.28 
date: 1995/03/27 19:41:11;  author: sos;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -6 
Give backspace to the people (again)