HP 3000 Manuals

MPE/iX Developer's Kit Reference Manual Volume II

erasechar 

The erasechar routine is used to return the current ERASE character.

Syntax 

     #include <curses.h>

     char erasechar();

Return Values 

The terminal's current ERASE character is returned.

Description 

The erasechar() routine returns the user's choice of ERASE character from
the tty driver.  This character is used to delete the previous character
during keyboard input.  The returned value can be used when including
deletion capability in interactive programs.

Implementation Considerations 

Identical to XPG/3

See Also 

wgetnstr()

Portability 

HP-UX, UNIX System V, XPG/3

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