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Re: problem with cygwin box (termcap?)


On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:58:20PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>David Arnstein wrote:
>
>> I launch a cygwin "box" (command window) on my Windows 2000 machine.
>> I run ssh to connect to a shell account running a variant of BSD Unix.
>> 
>> Whenever I use the program "less" on that shell account, it complains
>>         "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional."
>> Another user has stated that tin (the news reader) complains
>>         "tin: Terminal must have clear to end-of-screen (cd)
>> I suspect that these issues are related.  Can the termcap entry for
>> cygwin be improved?  Or is this truly a limitation of the cygwin box?
>
>You could also just use rxvt instead of of a cmd.exe window, which
>should result in $TERM being set to "rxvt" which should be recognised
>everywhere.  If for whatever reason you must use cmd.exe then follow the
>advice already in the thread to add the "cygwin" terminal info to the
>database on the remote end.

Also, the "ansi" or "vt100" TERM types may work acceptably on the remote
system depending on what the application is trying to do.

cgf

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