Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:10:55 -0500
From: mwoehlke <mwoehlke-nospam@tibco.com>
Subject: Re: Launch APP over SSH
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Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Wesley Smith on 4/21/2006 1:59 PM:
>> PS
>>
>> I also get the message WARNING: terminal is not fully functional . 
>> How do I get rid of this?
> 
> Usually, this is an indication that the remote machine does not have a
> termcap/terminfo database entry for the $TERM variable being sent to it
> [snip]
> It should be possible to install your own terminfo database entry on
> the remote machine to teach it how to deal with cygwin, and the
> warning will go away.  However, I have not done this recently myself,
> so I don't know the formula for this off the top of my head.

One way is to "borrow" Cygwin's. Another is to build one from a recent 
ncurses. http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/tm.aspx?m=727 has a fair 
amount of information on how to deal with this problem.

HTH

-- 
Matthew
Look! ...a hippo! *GDRLH!*

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