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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:45:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Garry Heaton <garry AT heaton6 DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Limited remote terminal access via cygwin]
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Garry Heaton wrote:

> Reid Thompson wrote:
> > after you login to your remote box run one of the following commands
> >     export TERM=xterm
> > or
> >     export TERM=vt100
> > or
> >     export TERM='whatever term type you normally use & is recognized on
> > the remote system"
> > reid
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Garry Heaton [mailto:garry AT heaton6 DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk]
> >>Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 7:46 AM
> >>To: Cygwin
> >>Subject: Limited remote terminal access via cygwin
> >>
> >>I'm setting-up headless Linux/SAMBA servers for use in
> >>Windows office networks which I want to admin from Windows
> >>via Cygwin. When I 'ssh' into the Linux box from Cygwin I
> >>only have limited terminal access. When I try to launch emacs
> >>on the remote machine I get the response:
> >>
> >>emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined.
> >>
> >>When I examine files using 'less' I also receive the message:
> >>
> >>WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> >>
> >>With 'less' the Cygwin/Windows terminal only displays a fixed
> >>% of the file examined and will not scroll to the end.
> >>
> >>My Cygwin environment settings are:
> >>
> >>ntsec check_case:strict tty
> >>
> >>Garry Heaton
>
> Tried all of these but nothing worked. I'm not running X on Cygwin. Just
> console mode. Still can't scroll past the first screen of an opened file.
> Emacs-nox also has display problems.
>
> Garry

Garry,

TERM should reflect the terminal you're running *in* (the one you use to
ssh to the Windows machine).  Normally, ssh will inherit the TERM setting
from the invoking shell.  If something resets the TERM value (I'm guessing
your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile), you'll need to fix that (e.g., by
putting a "[ -z TERM ]" guard).

Try invoking "bash --login -v" from ssh to see if a TERM=... command is
executed.
	Igor
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