Re: cone problems

Ian Laidlaw writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I've been using cone 0.56 on a Redhat 8 system for quite some time
> with no problems. I recently installed 0.57 on a brand new Gentoo box, 
> and there are a few issues:
> 
> - Backspace doesn't work, yet shift-backspace does. Changing putty
> to send ctrl-H instead of ctrl-? fixes the problem, but cone
> should probably be able to detect either one. Every other app
> on the system is fine (I'm writing this using pine :-) )
> - Home and End keys don't work

Both of these are terminal configuration issues.

> - Trying to send a message gives 517 syntax error.

Verify your sender and recipient addresses.
 
> - I've had some reports of other users on the system that cancelling
> messages with ctrl-c doens't work, it takes you back to the message. 
> 
> I also tryed 0.58 with no difference. 
> ncurses-5.4 is installed, X is not installed, using putty over an ssh 
> connection. 
> 
> Any ideas? 

Check putty for a setting that flips the backspace and del keys.

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