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Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 13:28:01 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
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Subject: Re: "Error opening terminal: cygwin." when attempting to start lynx
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On 5/1/2010 12:53 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 08:39:18PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, Christopher Faylor!
>>
>>>>> 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.
>>
>> Though it's apparent that I've just launched lynx as normal application, as
>> I've always did in the past.
>> TERM show nothing, this variable is undefined in common Windows environment.
>>
>> May I ask you what cygcheck mean when listing Far FTP plugin host definitions?
>> I've left it included, as it contains no private data, but it shouldn't be there.
>
> cygcheck did not list your installed packages for some reason which sounds like
> you may have more than one cygwin1.dll on your system.  For sure it is obvious
> that your PATH isn't right.  Cygwin's directories should always come first.  So
> maybe you aren't running a cygwin versin of lynx but are, instead, running something
> which does not understand the cygwin TERM type.

The cygcheck output also shows two Cygwin installations, one contained 
in the other.  That seems risky.

Ken

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