I've worked on both suggestions, without success. Thanks anyway. I'm emphasizing that Cygwin's ssh does work from a regular cmd.exe session.
2010/7/21 Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de>: > egarrulo <egarr...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello, > > Hi, > >> Cygwin's SSH, started with `M-x shell RET' fails with: >> >> "Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal." > > I have no experience with cygwin, but maybe "ssh -t -t host" helps. > >> `plink' (Putty's SSH client) starts, however I get escape sequences >> into output (although I call `ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on'). > > AFAIK, plink has also some options for the terminal. You could try > "plink host -t env 'TERM=dumb'" > >> Thank you. >> Elena > > Best regards, Michael. >