On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:56:33 -0800 (PST) "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I love using Cygwin; it's a great tool, since I find that manipulating > files is much easier for me from the CLI than with a GUI. > > This morning I SSH'ed into a remote box, though, and executed Vi; > instead of pulling up the editor, though, I got this message: > > I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is > 'cygwin'.[Using open mode] > > I can run Vi through PuTTY on the same remote computer, but it feels > inelegant to have two separate tools that can do the same thing. Is > there a way to make Cygwin deliver a different terminal type, or to > get the remote machine to understand Cygwin? What sort of box is ths? You need to have the appropriate terminfo file. In the case of Debian, this is /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin, and it comes in the ncurses-base package. On veni (an isun.ucdavis.edu box that I have to use for databases) I had to set up my environment variables to point to the correct directory full of terminfo files with export TERMINFO=/opt/pkg/contrib/share/terminfo in order that it should even recognize xterm and linux. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
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