Open Source Software Investigation — Stty Settings, Backspace and Delete

“A reader, Steve Hampson, suggested another solution to the
backspace/delete terminal problem: Try typing stty dec on the
offending terminal. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work in my case. I
had a look into stty to see if I could work out what was going
on.

“stty controls your terminal line settings, and it has a
slightly alarming array of options (see the man page for full
details). stty -a shows the current settings.

“stty dec is shorthand for setting several options at once:”

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