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sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> Apparently lots of people have trouble getting the 
> backspace to work in all areas of Linux.  

That's why BasicLinux has a pre-configured .inputrc to 
fix that problem for the CLI.  However, X is a different 
story.  Setting the keybindings for X applications is 
more complicated.  BasicLinux provides a pre-configured 
.Xdefaults as a partial fix, but users may have to use
a different method for some X applications.

> See the links to some interesting linux faqs at
> www.columbia.edu/kermit/backspace.html.

This subject is well covered in the Config-HOWTO and in
the Keyboard-and-Console HOWTO.  Slackware (any Slackware) 
has all the HOWTOs in the /docs directory.

Cheers,
Steven