Re: Emacs reads both DEL and Backspace as DEL

[Dan Kalikow <DrDan@Kalikow.com>]

Since we seem to be solving key-binding problems here... :-)  I'm running Gnu Emacs (I think 21.3.50, the Cocoa version?) on Mac OSX 10.2.3 on a TI-PowerBook.  

My problem is related but (I think) different.  My kbd doesn't have two flavors of DEL -- only one DEL key.  Most non-Emacs apps on the laptop run "delete-previous-char" for DEL and "delete-next-char" for hold-down-Function-key-and-then-press-DEL.  This is an OK price to pay for a laptop keyboard, IMHO.  However if I run m-X describe-key for DEL, Emacs says 
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DEL runs the command View-scroll-page-backward
   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `view'.
It is bound to DEL.
(View-scroll-page-backward &optional LINES)

Scroll "page size" or prefix LINES lines backward in View mode.
See also `View-scroll-page-forward'.
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for m-X describe-key for Function-DEL, Emacs says 

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DEL (translated from <kp-delete>) runs the command View-scroll-page-backward
   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `view'.
It is bound to DEL.
(View-scroll-page-backward &optional LINES)

Scroll "page size" or prefix LINES lines backward in View mode.
See also `View-scroll-page-forward'.
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to these unpracticed eyes, Emacs appears to think they're virtually the same.  Any ideas (or pointers to ideas) on what I should put in my .emacs file to tease apart forward- from backward-delete functions?  TIA for any advice.