Console Keyboard Difficulty

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Hello!

I am using FreeBSD 4.8. I recently installed emacs21 from the ports system 
but i'm afraid there may be a keybinding conflict. In my regular console and 
Xterm console Backspace is mapped at ctrl-h apparently. I think emacs knows 
this as backspace deletes the one character behind the cursur position and 
so does ctrl-h in emacs. The problem is that ctrl-h is supposed to activate 
the help system in emacs.

Is there an (elegant) solution to this problem? I know that for a while my 
keys weren't always working so well, but they were minor problems so i 
ignored them. For example in Xterm pressing delete inserts and '~' character 
and a console beep, in the regular console pressing delete inserts a 
backspace. Major TIA.
-rian

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