How do I use ^H as backward-delete-char

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From: Bjorn Engsig
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 11:21

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I have bash 1.04 running on a sun3 with sunos4.  On one of the terminals
I am using, the big key for char erase send a ^H and not DEL, the latter
being rather difficult to reach without moving fingers away from the keyboard.

How do I make ^H (C-H in emacs terms) work as the backward-delete-char?
I'm running in vi mode, and don't need ^H to do backspace.

Any stty settings for erase before calling bash, will be overwritten with
DEL.

Please note that I do not want to do it in my .inputrc, since I also use
terminals where DEL is the big char erase key.
-- 
Bjorn Engsig,	Domain:		bengsig@oracle.nl, bengsig@oracle.com
		Path:		uunet!{mcsun!orcenl,oracle}!bengsig

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From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
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Subject: How do I use ^H as backward-delete-char
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Date: 8 Dec 89 11:21:10 GMT
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