The backspace key no longer works for interactive commandline apps, e.g. mailx. It instead renders '^H' characters which are not interpreted. e.g. [damien@neon damien]$ Mail djm Subject: blag^H^H^H^H The new termcap works well for everything else though :)
Doesn't happen here - make sure you don't have an old inputrc or .termcap around.
stty erase '^h'