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[David Moberg <davidjohnmoberg AT yahoo.com>]

Hi all,

My ISP requires that I use dial-up scripts to log on.
For example, it has to wait for "Login:" then send my
username, wait for "Password:" and send my password,
wait for "Username:" and send my username, etc. How
can I do this with the pppsetup/ppp-on tools that come
with BL, or do I need to get a different dialer?

Also, since I'm the only one using my computer, how do
I automatically logon?

Thanks,
David Moberg

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> This is regarding my backspace/delete problem in X with 101-key keyboard.
> 
> With the .Xdefaults file the way it is, the Backspace acts like a DEL key.

I can get the same result as the (console) backspace by typing Ctrl-h.
I tried substituting ^h for ^? in .Xdefaults but this did not help.

Apparently lots of people have trouble getting the backspace to work in
all areas of Linux.  See the links to some interesting linux faqs at
www.columbia.edu/kermit/backspace.html.

I am using the default bash shell.  I can live with Ctrl-H for a while but
would really like to know how to remap the keyboard so I can use the
84-key model.  xmodmap appears to be the way to do it but I cannot figure
out what the instructions are telling me to do.  

xmodmap -grammar  - tells you to

keycode NUMBER = [KEYSYM ...]
keysym KEYSYM = [KEYSYM ...]

xmodmap -pk gives a long list including

keycode         keysym          ...  (up arrow on old keyboard -keypad)
80              0xffb8  
98              0xf52                   (up arrow on new keyboard)

I tried typing xmodmap keycode 80 = [0xf52] and many other variations all
of which got me an error message that it could not find a file and was
aborting.  What is the correct method of assigning keycodes?

xmodmap.std is a long list of standard keycodes (?) and is supposed to be
'fed' to xmodmap to restore standard settings.  Can I edit this file and
'feed' the edited version to xmodmap, and if so how?  


I have fixed a problem at my bbs - when telnetted with Kermit for Linux
(C-Kermit) it would not set the terminal type to vt100 until I removed a
line from .cshrc involving tset (that I had not put there).  At login I
was assigned 'terminal type unknown - dumb terminal type' and the arrow
keys would not work in lynx.  This is in my old account.  In the new
account everything worked.  The new account had no .cshrc so that had to
be the problem.  After I chose to 'force vt100' both .login files had tset
vt100 and the line in .cshrc must have interfered with that somehow.  Tset
is said to be dependent on various other things which might have changed
since this .cshrc was set up five years ago. This keyboard business can be
REALLY confusing.  Del can also be called RUBOUT (which it was on our
'real' terminal').  I could also have set Kermit to force vt100.

This should not be a problem now for new users as the new user program no
longer is creating .cshrc.  


Frank of Kermit and Doug of DOS Lynx are trying to help me with the
backspace problem - does anyone else have this problem in BL2?

This is much more educational than having everything work to start with.