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"Ivan A. Uemlianin" <ivan@jurakm.com> writes:

> One change I wanted was to have the '<X|' key (Backspace?) as
> delete-backward-char and 'Delete' (DEL) as delete-char.  However, my
> emacs reads both of these keys as DEL (detectable with M-x
> describe-key).

Are you running under a window system?  Under a window system, C-h c
and C-h l probably say different things about the keys.

You need to hit C-h c first, then the key, but for C-h l you have to
hit the key first, then C-h l.

Maybe (global-set-key (kbd "<delete>") 'delete-char) works.
-- 
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