Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 4/8/2010 4:07 PM, Al G. wrote:
> This started happening around March 23, no problems with screen before
> then. Since then using GNU screen (4.00.03) and trying to backspace by
> hitting the backspace key results in nothing happening. The cursor
> doesn't move, the character isn't erased and the command remains the
> same (if you hit Enter whatever your typo was gets the usual error).
> However, pressing CTRL-H does do a backspace correctly. Could this be
> related to the termcap changes from [^H] to [^?]? I have searched the
> forums and googled around;  found a few hits, that didn't work, and no
> solutions.

I just tried screen with 1.7.4 and what you described worked fine.
But I noticed your installation is incomplete and you're still running
1.7.1.  Please download a new 'setup.exe' from cygwin.com and try
reinstalling all of your packages.  This should solve that problem
at least.

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