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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 16:13:48 -0500
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
CC: Seth Delackner <seth AT jtan DOT com>
Subject: Re: openssh ssh using bash loses control of terminal
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> 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

File name is now cygwin.terminfo-5.2-4.  Also in the same directory,
terminfo.src-5.2-4 -- the entire terminfo src database.

> >
> > 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='.

Earnie -- 
  I've done so.  See the upcoming "official" announcement for
ncurses-5.2-4.

--Chuck

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