From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: Andreas Zielke <andreas.zielke@sdm.de>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: A bit OT: vi in telnet session
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 05:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000821124302.5755.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> (raw)
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--- Andreas Zielke <andreas.zielke@sdm.de> wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> I guess this posting is a bit off-topic, but I don't know any news-
> group that would be more appropriate. (If you do, please tell me.)
>
> When I telnet to a machine (running SunOS 5.7), using the telnet-
> program that comes with 1.1.4 Cygwin an start vi I get this error-
> message:
>
> bash-2.03$ vi
> cygwin: Unknown terminal type
> Visual needs addressable cursor or upline capability
> :
>
> Is there a simple solution (like setting TERM to something else)
> to this?
>
Why didn't you try your suggestion? After telnetting, export TERM=<something
in the SunOS terminal database>. You could try xterm, ansi, linux, vt100,
vt200, etc.
Cheers,
=====
---
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2000-08-21 5:43 Earnie Boyd [this message]
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2000-08-21 2:47 Neil Lunn
2000-08-21 2:15 Andreas Zielke
2000-08-21 3:31 ` Vikas
2000-08-21 3:39 ` Vikas
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