Need help figuring this out. PLEASE!!!

[fsanchez13]

I am telneting to a box that has an output flowing from another box

When I telnet and redirect output to a file and then tail the file I see the output normal. When I VI the file I see > ^H ^H^H ^H

Can anyone tell me how to stop this from happening?

If this is the wrong forum for this question please let me know so I can post it to the correct forum.

 

[Annihilannic]

Those are backspaces. You could try not using that key, but you'd better not make any mistakes!

Annihilannic.

 

[butterfm]

stty erase ^H
will set backspace to be you erase key so if you hit backspace you shouldn't see ^H