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 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:26:17 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Telnet -- FreeBSD cursor problem Message-ID: <20010317102617.O20900@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3AB2AD46.3ECAB54A@mvseac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AB2AD46.3ECAB54A@mvseac.com>; from lowella@mvseac.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:18:14PM -0800 On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:18:14PM -0800, L Anderson wrote: > I've been unsuccessful finding an answer to my problem in the Cygwin > list archives and documentation. Unix-type stuff is not my first > language so I'd greatly appreciate any pointers on solving this problem. This has been discussed a few days ago. > I'm running Cygwin 1.1.8 on a Win98SE system and trying to telnet from > Cygwin to a shell account on my ISP's FreeBSD 3.2 system. When I use > Microsoft telnet to connect to FreeBSD it behaves pretty much as > expected--for Microsoft telnet. When I use Cygwin telnet to connect to > FreeBSD, I get some unexpected behavior as described below. I've tried > setting TERM to various types (vt100, linux, ...) but to no avail. Open /usr/share/terminfo/c on your local box. You will find a terminfo entry called "cygwin". Copy that file to the remote box into $HOME/.terminfo/c Set your environment variable TERM to "cygwin" aka don't change it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple