xterm & "stty erase ^H"

From: Joerg Mueller-Tolk (google_at_mueller-tolk.de)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: 30 Mar 2004 23:31:50 -0800

Hi all

I have problems getting ^H on the backspace key when using xterm.
When using kvt ^? works perfect.

stty -all ; stty erase ^H ; stty -all

When doing the above I can clearly see that I can change the setting
for erase from ^? to ^H within stty.

xterm does not seem to care about that. The backspace key does not
work.
Doing a ^H using Ctrl+H does work.

I am using SLES8 and redirect the output to ReflectionX.

thx
irgei

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