[Info-vax] Odd issue whilst editing with PuTTY

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-09-17, thedavegray at gmail.com <thedavegray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Have my Alpha connected via a serial cable to a Win10 PC running PuTTY.  When I edit a document if I push the cursor to the end of the line and then press backspace, it often (though not always) wipes out the entire line.  
>
> So for example in my login.com I edit the line that says ?show user system?, pressing backspace on the final ?m? deletes the text ?syste?
>
>  
> I have uploaded a picture of it OneDrive with my PuTTY settings, hoping that explains a bit better.     I?m kind of stuck editing much of anything until this gets resolved.
>  
> https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ah9cer_nAx90jZcc97v5Vk34KsjFMQ?e=U74nTu 
>
>
> Basically unpredictable results are saved when editing.  
>  

Is your PuTTY screen also 72 lines high and 132 characters across ?

Do a "set term/inquire" by itself and see if that fixes the problem.

Failing that, are there any flow control issues ?

Simon.

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