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[Constant Brouerius van Nidek <constant AT indo.net.id>]

Thanks for the help with bash.
From dos I remember that I could count the times that a loop was 
running. Could also from Lotus 123 though. Something like 

count=1 
......
count +1
loop

As my warming up of the cdrom takes relatively long I would like to 
know how many times the rom is addressed without mounting so I would 
like to include the counting.
Anybody with the solution?
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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.

Can you suggest some way I might get the backspace working at least in
xterm?  It is behaving identically in all my X applications - it acts like
a DEL key instead.  What methods are normally used to fix this?

Or if you can explain to me how to set the number-pad DEL key to act like
a delete key (and not .) I can set both Backspace and DEL #2 to act like
backspace.  I cannot understand the instructions in xmodmap.  I tried to
follow them but nothing worked.

Or is there some way to get Ctrl-h to work as backspace in flwriter and
Links 2.1.9 the way it does in xterm and console programs run in xterm?