[Info-vax] Odd issue whilst editing with PuTTY

[abrsvc]

On Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 4:01:22 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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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> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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Make sure that the setting for the backspace is set to what you expect.  I believe that it generates a CTL H which can be interpreted in different ways.  IRRC, there is a terminal or screen setting for this.

Dan