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Date:Mon Sep 30 12:55:05 1994 
Subject:Re: using HP M68040 workstation, series 400 
From:Adrian Howard 
Volume-ID:941001.01 

In article <36f7pa$l5s@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk>,
A.Sloman <A.Sloman@uk.ac.bham.cs> wrote:
>Has anyone using such a machine found out how to get the key marked
>"Delete" to transmit a DEL character?
>
>When I log in to the machine it transmits only ESC p, I think. When I
>run X it transmits nothing (though backspace somehow decides to transmit
>ESC O p, for reasons I cannot understand.)

I've no idea how to get it working on a normal tty --- I presume there
is something wrong with the termcap settings somewhere.

On X you should be able to get it to work like this.

	1) Find out the keycode of the key using the XEV command. This
    will place a window on screen. Move the mouse inside it and press
    the delete key. You should see the keycode number amongst the
    information displayed in the window where you typed the command.

    2) Map the keycode onto the delete keysym. Do this with xmodmap. Eg:
    on Suns the keycode is 73 so

    	% xmodmap -e "keycode 73 = Delete"

This should hopefully sort things out for X.

Adrian

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