mintty ^H weirdness with ssh to one specific Debian 11 system

[Jim Garrison]

On 1/18/2024 06:14, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote:
> 
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> Am 18.01.2024 um 14:08 schrieb Andrey Repin via Cygwin:
>> Greetings, Jim Garrison via Cygwin!
>>
>>> Details
>>> I have mintty set to term type "mintty"
>> Don't do that.
>> $TERM is not a random made-up string. It should be supported by 
>> appropriate
>> terminfo(5) entry on the system. If an entry is not found, it will 
>> fall back
>> to some other entry, which could be 'vt100' or even 'dumb', which is 
>> not what
>> you want, certainly.
> Yes, I forgot to mention that. One way to check whether a terminal 
> description addressed by your $TERM value is actually installed on the 
> system, is to run the tool `infocmp`.
> 

Thanks to those who replied.  In the inimitable words of one Miss Emily
Litella (Gilda Radner).... "Never Mind!"

(L)user error. My apologies for the noise.

-- 
Jim Garrison
jhg@acm.org