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Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:13:30 -0500
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
CC:	Seth Delackner <seth AT jtan DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: openssh ssh using bash loses control of terminal
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Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
> This is because you are running in a DOS box locally, and the remote app
> is using (a remote version of) ncurses.  The DOS box ain't linux.  What
> you want to do is set TERM=cygwin, but then you need to instruct the
> remote machine in what "cygwin" means
> .  Download the following file:
> 
> http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygwin.terminfo
> 
> which is an excerpt from the ncurses-5.2-4-src.tar.gz terminfo.src.  Put
> cygwin.terminfo on the remote machine, and run 'tic cygwin.terminfo' on
> that machine.  This should create a partial terminfo database in
> ~/.terminfo/* on the remote machine, "teaching" it about TERM=cygwin.
> 

Be sure to `export TERMINFO='~/.terminfo'' in order for tic to put this
in your home directory.  Chuck, you needed to include all dependency
definitions.  Dependencies can be found from a search of `use='.

Cheers,
Earnie.

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