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From: "Jean Jordaan" <jean AT mosaicsoftware DOT com>
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Cc: <kragen AT pobox DOT com>
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Subject: Telnet/ssh TERM question
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 14:55:34 +0200
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Hi all

In response to a query about good Windows telnet clients, I recently 
recommended Cygwin:

"Jean Jordaan" <Jean AT mosaicsoftware DOT com> writes:
> But personally I use Cygwin, which includes the normal Un*x telnet and
> ssh clients, with normal bash and readline, and all the other good
> things a proper commandline environment brings with it. And it is GPL.
> http://www.cygwin.com/

That triggered the following query from Kragen Sitaker 
<kragen AT pobox DOT com>:

"What TERM setting do you use on the machines you ssh to?  'cygwin' is
not yet widely recognized, 'vt100' and 'ibmpc' work terribly on
Solaris, and 'ansi' doesn't seem to have standout, so less complains
at me.  Is there a better widely-distributed termcap/terminfo entry
for cygwin?  Alternatively, is there a better terminal emulator I
could use for cygwin?"

So far, I've been more or less happy with 'ansi', and I don't have 
experience with Solaris, so I can't assist Kragen. Do any of you have
any advice for him?

Thanks for taking the trouble to read this,
Jean Jordaan


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