On 2004.02.16 12:20, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Whenever I ssh into my Debian box, Lucien, with Cygwin from a Windows 
> computer and try to execute Vi or top or similar tools, I get an error 
> like the following:
> 
> Unknown terminal "cygwin" in $TERM
> 
> Naturally, this doesn't happen when I SSH into my Red Hat computers.
> 
> How do I fix this issue so that I ssh successfully into my Debian 
> computer?  I'd rather not have to put PuTTY onto my Windows computer, 
> just because I'd rather not have redundant terminal programs (if that 
> makes sense).

I have a terminfo file for cygwin on my Debian box.
/etc/terminfo/c/cygwin and /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin (I think there's a symlink 
somewhere in one of the paths), it comes from ncurses-base.

I'm running sid last updated yesterday.

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