Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:28:51 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Need help on terminal emulation in Cygwin console
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:15:41PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:02:41PM +0200, Tomasz Pona wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>1st much thanks to Charles Wilson for inetutils update.
>>
>>I have latest Cygwin/inetutils installed.
>>
>>Quick problem explanation:
>>- doing "telnet localhost" (and not only localhost)
>>- connection process and remote session control is 100% OK
>>however...
>>- getting a space before every entered character (even during login)
>>- backspace doesn't remove characters but otherwise seems to work (typing
>>garbage, deleting it and hitting ENTER produces clean prompt, while garbage
>>stays in previous line)
>>
>>Does this mean char echoing isn't working right?
>
>It sounds like you may have your TERM environment variable set incorrectly.
>
>Please follow the reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html .

This is also a symptom of out of date ncurses/terminfo packages, IIRC.

cgf

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