ADM-42 Terminal Vs. UNIX Sys V Rel 3

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <20853 at adm.BRL.MIL> wmartin at stl-06sima.army.mil (Will Martin) writes:
>The first thing to suspect in this sort of thing, of course, is
>termcap/terminfo incompatibility.

Of course NOT.  If you see this behavior when you're typing shell
commands, terminfo is utterly ruled out.

Two things to check:  Does this occur while running cat>/dev/null?
If not, perhaps you're using a fancy shell whose command-line
editing is not set up right.  Is "stty echoe" in effect?  If so,
perhaps the BS SP BS sequence is improperly being sent as DEL SP DEL.