Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A7DC60C.580F255E@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 16:13:48 -0500 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Earnie Boyd CC: Seth Delackner Subject: Re: openssh ssh using bash loses control of terminal References: <20010122211555.A9626@io.jtan.com> <3A6D77F5.AB46B1F3@ece.gatech.edu> <3A6D918A.5A5BE094@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple