[u-u] Terminal Emulation

[Julian C. Dunn]

On Mon, 9 May 2011, Renata Rocha wrote:

> I happen to be managing different kinds of unixes, mostly Solaris 10.
>
> I have to connect to these instances using Putty. Yes, it's a windows 
> machine. How to make the terminal on the other side talk to putty on a 
> more friendly way? I noticed it's VT100, but when I open vi... my life's 
> over. Editing a file is pain and suffering. I set the term for vt100, 
> exported, yadda yadda, but I can't use backspace/delete.
>
> Any help on making my life better would be appreciated.

Did you already try:

% stty erase [then type the backspace key, then Enter]

or

% tset -e [then type the backspace key, then Enter]

?

- Julian

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