From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: TERM/termcap question
16 Nov 1998 04:17:31 -0800
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> I have no problems with TERM=linux with any program that uses terminal
> escape sequences.  The emulation is supposedly written to be the same as
> the linux console so if it is not operating in that manner then there is
> a bug.  It sounds like there may be a bug with character insertion.
> 
> I don't know why setting CYGWIN=tty would affect this.

Indeed, my observation is incorrect. Sorry. In my console window, I
have now observed the following with tcsh, either compiled with
-ltermcap or -lncurses:

- CYGWIN=[all one]
	- set term=nansisys	# better defined than ansi
	Anything OK.

	- set term=linux
	Insert chars doesn't shift rest of line to the right.

	This is really strange, because the termcap entries
	of `linux' and `nansisys' both contain the same `ic=\E[1@'.

- CYGWIN=... tty ...
	- set term=nansisys
	Anything OK.

	- set term=linux
	Rarely, after changing window size to e.g. 50 lines:
	After using `clear' from the ncurses package, further
	commands believe, they have a fixed window size of 25 lines.

Corinna