From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: TERM/termcap question
15 Nov 1998 18:18:27 -0800
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> [...]
> Setting CYGWIN=tty has no bearing on this.  This is a separate
> issue.  The standard setting right now should be TERM=linux
> regardless of whether the user has set CYGWIN=tty or CYGWIN=notty.
> In either case the terminal emulation in fhandler_console still
> works.

I'm using tcsh, and I have the effect, that the setting
TERM=linux (regardless of using termcap or ncurses) in notty
mode doesn't move the rest of the line to the right, if I insert
characters.
TERM=ansi works better.

> >The file `cygnus.bat' should contain a line `set TERM=cygwin' to
> >show, that a TERM setting is not unimportant.
> 
> I was proposing setting the TERM environment variable automatically.
> Not everyone runs the programs via the cygnus.bat file.

Correct. I thought, the default terminal setting should help the
beginner and setting TERM in the cygnus.bat file, too, would be a
good prototype for beginners.

Corinna