terminal prog can't send ctl-h

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From: Rusty Wright
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 21:59

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I have a friend who is using some terminal emulation program on an
Apple II and it can't send control-h.  When he presses control-h it
sends delete.  I put in his .emacs file the following elisp code that
I got from someone long ago that switches control-h and delete; now at
least he can use the help char and run the emacs tutorial, but he has
no way of deleting backwards.

(let ((i 0) (table (make-string 128 0)))
  (while (< i 128) (aset table i i)
	 (setq i (1+ i)))
  (aset table 127 8)
  (aset table 8 127)
  (setq keyboard-translate-table table))

Does anybody have any suggestions as to what key I could swap delete
with instead of backspace since his terminal program can't generate a
backspace?

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