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Re: Error opening terminal: cygwin.
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:33:16 +0200
- Subject: Re: Error opening terminal: cygwin.
- References: <16489692.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 4 02:13, iw2nzm wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I apologize if my English is not so good, I'm write from Italy.
> I'm a newbye in linux systems and cygwin too. I'm trying to edit a file with
> nano through an ssh connection.
> I have a machine on my LAN (Western Digital NAS) and I'm able to make an ssh
> connection from my dekstop (Windows XP). On both machines I installed nano.
>
> In fact, launching nano from my PC will run the editor. Once logged-in to
> the remote machine it will raise the following error:
>
> Error opening terminal: cygwin.
Your remote machine is probably missing the terminfo file for the cygwin
terminal type. You could copy the file from a machine which has that
file, or, as a temporary hack, try to set terminal type to "linux" or
"xterm".
Corinna
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