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Ubuntu 22.04 and SyncTerm 1.2b - no backspace on Atari BBSs

Hey everyone, I decided to have some fun so I installed Ubuntu 22.04 and managed to get SyncTerm installed (it installed 1.2b version). Everything is working great, except when I connect to 8bit boards using ATASCII, my Backspace key doesn't do anything when I'm writing messages. If I connect using ASCII or connect to an ST board using ANSI, backspace key works fine. For some reason when I'm logged on using ATASCII, the Backspace key doesn't do anything when writing messages. Is this common and there is a work-around that I don't know about?

Thanks,

Jason

4 comments

4 Comments

darklord

Oct 09, 2023

Have you tried <control> H ? Sometimes that works...

Jason Young

Oct 09, 2023

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<control> H worked!!! Thanks!

darklord

Oct 09, 2023

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No problem. Dredged that up from memory. Eons ago, when I first got into Linux there was a terminal I was using that wouldn't backspace no matter what. Someone, somewhere, in one of the 'Nix forums told me to use that key combo and it worked then.

Glad to know it's still valid. 😀

tillek

Oct 09, 2023

I've used Ubuntu in the past, but as for SyncTerm, I've only used it with Linux Mint... that said... I didn't have to do anything special that I recall for A8 or ST.

Sorry man.

Might play with it more later, so if this changes, I'll let you know.