X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:33:16 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Error opening terminal: cygwin. Message-ID: <20080404123316.GE5532@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <16489692.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16489692.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Apr 4 02:13, iw2nzm wrote: > > > Hello, > > I apologize if my English is not so good, I'm write from Italy. > I'm a newbye in linux systems and cygwin too. I'm trying to edit a file with > nano through an ssh connection. > I have a machine on my LAN (Western Digital NAS) and I'm able to make an ssh > connection from my dekstop (Windows XP). On both machines I installed nano. > > In fact, launching nano from my PC will run the editor. Once logged-in to > the remote machine it will raise the following error: > > Error opening terminal: cygwin. Your remote machine is probably missing the terminfo file for the cygwin terminal type. You could copy the file from a machine which has that file, or, as a temporary hack, try to set terminal type to "linux" or "xterm". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/