backspace at login prompt shown as 2 backspace

Kenneth J. Hendrickson (kjh@seas.smu.edu)
Mon, 13 Nov 1995 07:21:52 +0100


>Done. A test version with reworked "logname.c" can be found on ftp.leo.org
>as mgetty099-Nov12, and I'll attach the new "logname.c" below. This
>version should *finally* work with every variant of Backspace/<DEL>, Echoe
>or not, ...

I assume that you don't need me to post the patches that I made to
mgetty 0.22 to fix this problem in that version.  If I'm wrong, let me
know.  (I haven't had time to post them yet; apparently it doesn't
matter any more.)

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