Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3FB3F308.7030503@free.fr> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:09:28 +0100 From: Nicolas BUONOMO User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: terminal characterestics References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, koorapati, koundinya wrote: > > >>Hey Cygwin Users, >> I have a problem when I rlogin to other *NIX hosts from the native xterm >>launched from Cygwin-Xfree86. One I rlogin, it so happens that, trying to >>'vi' some file, the vi editor just scrolls past the top most lines of the >>file and takes me to a point somewhere in the middle. Evening trying to >>position explicitly to the first line :1, does not work. I suppose this has >>something to do with the X Server configuration ?. I've tried searching >>through the mail archives, but don't see anyone having a problem as close to >>as mine. Any help or pointers will get me moving with my work. I have been >>reluctant to using any other propritery emulation software, till now as I >>really want to use Cygwin >> >>Thanks Koundinya > > > Is your TERM variable set correctly in the remote shell? > Igor I have the same problem when I rlogin to AIX hosts. The TERM variable is set to xterm. I have tried some other value, aixterm works a little better. But the best way I found is to replace rlogin (run xterm.exe -e rlogin "%2@%1") with telnet (run xterm.exe -e telnet -l %2 %1). Nicolas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/