Terminal settings for rsh/telnet to remote

Terminal settings for rsh/telnet to remote

[Bruce Dobrin]

(using cygwin 1.3.2)

Hi,

I know I've seen similar things like this before in this list,  but none of
the solutions seem to be working for me....
Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can get the rxvt or cygwin
terminal or something else to work correctly when rsh-ing  to UNIX?  Am I
doing something wrong (probably)?  Could anyone steer me in the right
direction?
I've been trying for quite some time now to use cygwin terminal and/or rxvt
and/or xterm for rshelling to the Irix, sun, and linux boxes in my facility.
I thought rxvt would be the answer,  but I still go through hell trying to
edit files on the remote system.  In rxvt (x11 and standalone),  and xterm
usually,  I end up with either spurious characters, improper cursor
placement,  or  only half a page,  not always initially, but eventually.
Or,  if I work through these problems,  and log out of the remote machine,
then the local session is screwy (often refusing to scroll).  as long as I
don't  launch vi or man,  I'm usually ok...

examples of things I've tried are:   in a local rxvt window:

(on local cygwin box)
setenv TERM rxvt-cygwin
tset -s rxvt-cygwin
rsh (UNIX or Linux box)
setenv TERMINFO ~/.terminfo   (previously setup using terminfo-src-5.2-4)
setenv TERM rxvt-cygwin
tset -s rxvt-cygwin

results here are a bit better than using xterm,  but I still have a hard
time getting through a file using vi.....

I searched out  google  "terminal setup rxvt site:cygwin" an "ncurses remote
terminal site:cygwin" and many permutations of those without coming up with
a solution that seemed to work.    What am I doing wrong?

thanks for your time:
Bruce Dobrin



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Re: Terminal settings for rsh/telnet to remote

[Mark Paulus]

My personal preference is to bring the cygwin* entries from my
cygwin box over to the box in question, in my local directory.
Then I do the setenv (I use bash, so its more like 
'export TERMINFO=~/terminfo'), and then I just telnet, or 
ssh into the box I want to use.  The cygwin terminal type seems to 
work just great.....
I have done this on an HP-UX and on a debian linux box.




On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:24:13 -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote:

>(using cygwin 1.3.2)
>
>Hi,
>
>I know I've seen similar things like this before in this list,  but none of
>the solutions seem to be working for me....
>Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can get the rxvt or cygwin
>terminal or something else to work correctly when rsh-ing  to UNIX?  Am I
>doing something wrong (probably)?  Could anyone steer me in the right
>direction?
>I've been trying for quite some time now to use cygwin terminal and/or rxvt
>and/or xterm for rshelling to the Irix, sun, and linux boxes in my facility.
>I thought rxvt would be the answer,  but I still go through hell trying to
>edit files on the remote system.  In rxvt (x11 and standalone),  and xterm
>usually,  I end up with either spurious characters, improper cursor
>placement,  or  only half a page,  not always initially, but eventually.
>Or,  if I work through these problems,  and log out of the remote machine,
>then the local session is screwy (often refusing to scroll).  as long as I
>don't  launch vi or man,  I'm usually ok...
>
>examples of things I've tried are:   in a local rxvt window:
>
>(on local cygwin box)
>setenv TERM rxvt-cygwin
>tset -s rxvt-cygwin
>rsh (UNIX or Linux box)
>setenv TERMINFO ~/.terminfo   (previously setup using terminfo-src-5.2-4)
>setenv TERM rxvt-cygwin
>tset -s rxvt-cygwin
>
>results here are a bit better than using xterm,  but I still have a hard
>time getting through a file using vi.....
>
>I searched out  google  "terminal setup rxvt site:cygwin" an "ncurses remote
>terminal site:cygwin" and many permutations of those without coming up with
>a solution that seemed to work.    What am I doing wrong?
>
>thanks for your time:
>Bruce Dobrin
>
>
>
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RE: Terminal settings for rsh/telnet to remote

[Brooks, Stephen]

You can always try "eval $(resize)" to set the terminal size correctly. TERM
needs to be set to xterm....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Dobrin [ mailto:dobrin@imageworks.com ]
> Sent: 14 August 2001 20:24
> To: cygwin mailing list
> Subject: Terminal settings for rsh/telnet to remote
> 
> 
> (using cygwin 1.3.2)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know I've seen similar things like this before in this 
> list,  but none of
> the solutions seem to be working for me....
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can get the rxvt or cygwin
> terminal or something else to work correctly when rsh-ing  to 
> UNIX?  Am I
> doing something wrong (probably)?  Could anyone steer me in the right
> direction?
> I've been trying for quite some time now to use cygwin 
> terminal and/or rxvt
> and/or xterm for rshelling to the Irix, sun, and linux boxes 
> in my facility.
> I thought rxvt would be the answer,  but I still go through 
> hell trying to
> edit files on the remote system.  In rxvt (x11 and 
> standalone),  and xterm
> usually,  I end up with either spurious characters, improper cursor
> placement,  or  only half a page,  not always initially, but 
> eventually.
> Or,  if I work through these problems,  and log out of the 
> remote machine,
> then the local session is screwy (often refusing to scroll).  
> as long as I
> don't  launch vi or man,  I'm usually ok...
> 
> examples of things I've tried are:   in a local rxvt window:
> 
> (on local cygwin box)
> setenv TERM rxvt-cygwin
> tset -s rxvt-cygwin
> rsh (UNIX or Linux box)
> setenv TERMINFO ~/.terminfo   (previously setup using 
> terminfo-src-5.2-4)
> setenv TERM rxvt-cygwin
> tset -s rxvt-cygwin
> 
> results here are a bit better than using xterm,  but I still 
> have a hard
> time getting through a file using vi.....
> 
> I searched out  google  "terminal setup rxvt site:cygwin" an 
> "ncurses remote
> terminal site:cygwin" and many permutations of those without 
> coming up with
> a solution that seemed to work.    What am I doing wrong?
> 
> thanks for your time:
> Bruce Dobrin
> 
> 
> 
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