Erase/kill on login

[Root Boy Jim]

   In some article, root at stcns3.stc.oz (System Supervisor) writes:
   > Is there any way in Sys V to get to use arbitrary erase/kill characters
   > while logging in?  Why those brain-damaged #/@ characters are still used,
   > I don't know.  I haven't seen a hard-copy terminal for quite some time...

   At least these chars, albeit brain damaged, are standard!  (:-)

Wrong. I'm willing to bet the great majority of unix users *never* used
either of these characters for either function.

   problem with letting everyone define their very own erase/kill
   chars is that then noone knows what to use.  For you, for example,
   the preferred and intuitive chars are bs and ^U.  I on the other
   hand *hate* ^U and use bs and ^X (like it says in ascii - cancel!).

Cancel? Why not just NAK it :-) But seriously, BSD's standard control
chars (erase is DEL, kill is ^U) are what DEC has been using for years,
all the way back to RT-11. The only difference is ^D vs ^Z.

   Don't get me wrong, I'm not flaming your choice of chars, just
   pointing out that a little more chaos would creep in with those
   kinds of settable params.  If you have source code you can easily
   change it.  At the very least, #/@ should be supported...  -- Derek

No. #/@ should be dropped. They are graphics, not control characters.
Whichever you choose, at least pick them from the right set.

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	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj at icst-cmr.arpa>
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