Remapping DEL key on a SUN4

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From: Peter Clark
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:46

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Hi all,

I am using emacs 18.58 on a SUN 4 (Sparc 1) with a type 4 keyboard.

I would like to remap the DEL key on the keypad from delete-backward-char
to delete-char.  I have tried in my .emacs
(global-set-key "DEL" 'delete-char)
(global-set-key "\DEL" 'delete-char)
etc. to no avail.

I did notice that I could do a 
M-x local-set-key DEL delete-char
while running emacs and this worked OK.

I've looked in the FAQ, I've tried everything, please help explain this!!!

Thanks for all hints and pointers!

Cheers, Peter Clark
pedro@eerc.berkeley.edu

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