X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 12:08:24 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "Error opening terminal: cygwin." when attempting to start lynx Message-ID: <20100501160824.GA21508@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <545472025.20100501114001@mtu-net.ru> <20100501080821.GA3809@ghost.local.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100501080821.GA3809@ghost.local.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:08:21AM +0200, d.sastre.medina@gmail.com wrote: >On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 11:40:01AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >> I'm receiving this error message when trying to start >> lynx browser: >> >> [C:\]$lynx >> Error opening terminal: cygwin. > >Hello, > >What does `echo $TERM' tells you? (I'm guessing TERM=cygwin) >Does `export TERM=xterm' solve the problem? >Note that it works for me whatever TERM is: cygwin, xterm, screen... >I can only force to fail if I set TERM to nonsense `TERM=sjdfjsfjsf' > >(What I don't know is why TERM=cygwin fails for you) At this point we normally ask for someone to read: http://cygwin.com/problems.html and provide the type of information suggested there. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple