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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:26:17 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin Telnet -- FreeBSD cursor problem
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In-Reply-To: <3AB2AD46.3ECAB54A@mvseac.com>; from lowella@mvseac.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:18:14PM -0800

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:18:14PM -0800, L Anderson wrote:
> I've been unsuccessful finding an answer to my problem in the Cygwin
> list archives and documentation.  Unix-type stuff is not my first
> language so I'd greatly appreciate any pointers on solving this problem.

This has been discussed a few days ago.

> I'm running Cygwin 1.1.8 on a Win98SE system and trying to telnet from
> Cygwin to a shell account on my ISP's FreeBSD 3.2 system. When I use
> Microsoft telnet to connect to FreeBSD it behaves pretty much as
> expected--for Microsoft telnet.  When I use Cygwin telnet to connect to
> FreeBSD, I get some unexpected behavior as described below.  I've tried
> setting TERM to various types (vt100, linux, ...) but to no avail.

Open /usr/share/terminfo/c on your local box. You will find a terminfo
entry called "cygwin". Copy that file to the remote box into
$HOME/.terminfo/c

Set your environment variable TERM to "cygwin" aka don't change it.

Corinna

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