Dev.con magic

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Hi

I’ve created a QNX4 boot floppy to use as a rescue disk. There is one
feature that I haven’t been able to duplicate on the floppy that I can
easily achieve on hard disk boot systems.

I want to be able to hit the key in the middle of a shell line
and have it delete characters left of the cursor. I’ve passed all the same
options to Dev & Dev.con. I’ve done the same stty commands but still to no
effect.

What is the missing magic?

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“Bill Caroselli (Q-TPS)” <QTPS@EarthLink.net> wrote in message
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Hi

I’ve created a QNX4 boot floppy to use as a rescue disk. There is one
feature that I haven’t been able to duplicate on the floppy that I can
easily achieve on hard disk boot systems.

I want to be able to hit the key in the middle of a shell line
and have it delete characters left of the cursor. I’ve passed all the
same
options to Dev & Dev.con. I’ve done the same stty commands but still to
no
effect.

What is the missing magic?

I beleive you need come config done in /etc/profile (down the bottom from
memory)
plus all the terminfo stuff.

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I have all the terminfo stuff. What am I missing from /etc/profile?

BTW, thanks for trying Mario

“Mario Charest” <goto@nothingness.com> wrote in message
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“Bill Caroselli (Q-TPS)” <> QTPS@EarthLink.net> > wrote in message
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Hi

I’ve created a QNX4 boot floppy to use as a rescue disk. There is one
feature that I haven’t been able to duplicate on the floppy that I can
easily achieve on hard disk boot systems.

I want to be able to hit the key in the middle of a shell
line
and have it delete characters left of the cursor. I’ve passed all the
same
options to Dev & Dev.con. I’ve done the same stty commands but still to
no
effect.

What is the missing magic?

I beleive you need come config done in /etc/profile (down the bottom from
memory)
plus all the terminfo stuff.

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Mario Charest <goto@nothingness.com> wrote:

“Bill Caroselli (Q-TPS)” <> QTPS@EarthLink.net> > wrote in message
news:a8i10q$gar$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Hi

I’ve created a QNX4 boot floppy to use as a rescue disk. There is one
feature that I haven’t been able to duplicate on the floppy that I can
easily achieve on hard disk boot systems.

I want to be able to hit the key in the middle of a shell line
and have it delete characters left of the cursor. I’ve passed all the
same
options to Dev & Dev.con. I’ve done the same stty commands but still to
no
effect.

What is the missing magic?

I beleive you need come config done in /etc/profile (down the bottom from
memory)
plus all the terminfo stuff.

Yes, it may need a /usr/lib/terminfo/q/qnx file. And, is your
TERM environment variable set?

-David

QNX Training Services
http://www.qnx.com/support/training/
Please followup in this newsgroup if you have further questions.

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“Bill Caroselli (Q-TPS)” <QTPS@EarthLink.net> wrote in message
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I have all the terminfo stuff. What am I missing from /etc/profile?

Actually nothing, I was confused.

BTW, thanks for trying Mario

:wink:

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There are only two kinds of mistakes in this world.

  1. mistakes you can blame on someone else
  2. stupid mistakes

I could swear that I was running the full shell. But I was running esh.

“Mario Charest” <goto@nothingness.com> wrote in message
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“Bill Caroselli (Q-TPS)” <> QTPS@EarthLink.net> > wrote in message
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I have all the terminfo stuff. What am I missing from /etc/profile?


Actually nothing, I was confused.

BTW, thanks for trying Mario

:wink:
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