emacs question

[Villa, Maria (HBO)]

Hi 
I have few users that uses regular emacs on our aix unix servers.

They have a problem when want to delete a character or word, the backspace
key does not work.
how can we map a key to work with e-macs or how can we solve this problem

your help is appreciated.....

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