Frustrating day with solaris

I hardly use console based operating system.. not that i dont like them.. but i never got a chance to explore their full potential.. so i always have a dislike towards those terminals(after seeing matrix i started liking them though..) today i had to perform a build in solaris server.. i typed something wrong in the console so i have to erase it, so my instinct said i have to press the backspace key and it didn't work and suprisingly i got some funny looking characters on screen.. so i tried the obvious second choice of delete key, that didn't work either :( then i tried Vi short cut and again in vain and then emacs del shortcut, still no help.. cursing the creator of solaris and asked my colleague sitting next to me.. fortunately he knew how to get backspace working... type the following the console prompt

stty erase

make sure you press the backspace after you type "stty erase " and there you goooo...

How easy it is.. we need to remember a command to remove a character from console.. crazy!!