REPOST: Re: backspace doesn't work in sqlplus

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:57:48 +0000, Andy Campbell wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm using a sqlplus on LINUX and for some reason backspace doesn't work
>from sqlplus. It's works fine from the OS but turns into ^? as soon as I
>enter sqlplus.
>
>I can do !stty erase ^H from sqlplus, but thats annoying everytime. I could add it
>to my glogin.sql but its a bit of a hack.

I think that your problem comes from the ORACLE_TERM variable. Under the shell, TERM is used but under sqlplus, ORACLE_TERM is probably used if defined.

Try with an undefined ORACLE_TERM.

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