Currently when using Putty, if I hit BACKSPACE I get a bunch of junk on the screen. Same with a lot of other keys. Wondering if there is a way to just make putty work like a normal text document or something.

Can't quite figure out how to adjust it.

This post was edited by Eep on Oct 25 2012 03:59pm

Doesn't have anything to do with Putty. The problem you're having is either related to the shell you're working in, or the program you're using.

You'll need to post more specifics about exactly what it is that you're doing.

Alternatively, Google it and see if the solutions some folks have suggested apply to your use cases.

This post was edited by irimi on Oct 25 2012 04:06pm

What shell is the remote machine using?

UMSL's admiral is a UNIX shell.


They have a program on the campus computers, called secure telnet, which you log in to admiral with. It is much nicer looking than putty in some respects and has keys I am more familiar with.


according to google control+h fixes the backspace problem? Guess that is a hotkey I never knew.

This post was edited by Eep on Oct 25 2012 04:14pm

Unix is an OS, not a shell. You can find out the shell on a *nix system by typing in `echo $0`. For instance here's the output on my MBA:



You may have to fiddle with some settings in putty after you know what shell their nix system is running.

$0 doesn't exist on mine apparently. I did some searching on google and saw someone say to do these so I'll post them

Oh ok, csh. I'm surprised that didn't work but the $SHELL env variable does the trick. I don't have a windows machine handy to play with putty but you should be able to rebind ^H to backspace.

yeah I got it to work thanks guys