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Jeff Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>  I have a program that will connect to another host via telnet and
> work like a terminal emulator.  This works fine in Linux, but under
> cygwin, when the host sends out the vt220 command <ESC>(B  cygwin
> apparently doesn't know how to handle this escape code, and it ends up
> displaying the B on the screen,
> 
> In Linux if I type "echo ^[(Btest" at a command prompt it comes back
> as "test", but if I do the exact same thing at a cygwin prompt it
> comes back as "Btest"
> 
> Does anyone know a simple way around this?  


Run rxvt (or xterm if you're running X) instead?


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