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From: Steven Curtis <sjc AT qx DOT net>
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To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin termcap entry for Solaris
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:46:46 -0500
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I may have misspoken before.  uname -a reveals the following:

SunOS engsol10 5.5 Generic_103093-27 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5

I'm running csh and have tried "setenv TERM xterm" which also doesn't work.  Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Steve

> 
> From: Reid Thompson <jreidthompson AT yahoo DOT com>
> Date: 2000/12/01 Fri PM 01:37:08 EST
> To: sjc AT qx DOT net
> Subject: Re: Cygwin termcap entry for Solaris
> 
> If I telnet to SunOS 5.6 and
> 
> $TERM=xterm
> 
> vi works fine.  I was thinking that at this time
> solaris and SunOS were approximately the same....?
> 
> 
> --- Steven Curtis <sjc AT qx DOT net> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I use cygwin on my NT box and regularly try to
> > telnet to Sun machines running Solaris.  I have not
> > gotten vi to format or edit files correctly
> > regardles of what I set TERM to.  I've tried vt100,
> > vt200, xterm, and ansi.  None seem to work.  Lately
> > I've been trying to graft termcap entries from other
> > machines.  I've tried entries from an OpenBSD
> > machine and a Linux machine, but Solaris's version
> > of captoinfo never seems to be able to grok those
> > entries reporting, "Termcap entry too long" or
> > "Obsolete code removed" etc.  The resulting terminfo
> > entries after using tic on the output seems to
> > produce better results, but they invariably have
> > problems.  Has anyone come up with a proper and
> > complete termcap entry for a cygwin terminal that
> > works on Solaris?  I'm no terminal wizard and
> > wouldn't know how to write one myself to save my
> > life.  Can anyone help me?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
> > 
> > 
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