David Arnstein wrote: > I launch a cygwin "box" (command window) on my Windows 2000 machine. > I run ssh to connect to a shell account running a variant of BSD Unix. > > Whenever I use the program "less" on that shell account, it complains > "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional." > Another user has stated that tin (the news reader) complains > "tin: Terminal must have clear to end-of-screen (cd) > I suspect that these issues are related. Can the termcap entry for > cygwin be improved? Or is this truly a limitation of the cygwin box?
You could also just use rxvt instead of of a cmd.exe window, which should result in $TERM being set to "rxvt" which should be recognised everywhere. If for whatever reason you must use cmd.exe then follow the advice already in the thread to add the "cygwin" terminal info to the database on the remote end. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
