On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:31:04PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > I've been using linux for years and years, but I have never figured this > odd little corner out. Perhaps someone here will know. > > If you type when the kernel is booting up, it echos to the screen. > That's normal for linux of course. The interesting behavior that > puzzles me is that if you hit the backspace key, it pops the letter that > it is backspacing over off of the stack, and prints it. Some / and \ > characters are printed too around what you typed.
This brings back sweet memories from when linux was unix and screens where teletypes:) IIRC it comes down to the kernel not knowing what type your terminal is and hence treating it as a real teletype, you know those hardcopy devices. > So, if I type: > > Joey he_ > > Then backspace back two spaces, I see: > > Joey he\eh/_ yep, this is how it looked (IIRC:) > Anyone know why this happens? It's a very interesting way to handle it's because on a teletype you couldn't erase, so backspacing wouldn't help in keeping things readeable:) But this is all from memory, and my memory is rusty and time has brought tiny holes, mostly colliding, so there might be huge holes. -- groetjes, carel
