From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 17 9:13:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EEF37B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:13:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [209.145.65.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D44D43E31 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:13:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from mail.ubergeeks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ubergeeks.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6HFhaHb055213; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:43:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by mail.ubergeeks.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g6HFhLvb055210; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:43:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) X-Authentication-Warning: lorax.ubergeeks.com: adrian owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:43:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Terry Lambert Cc: Alex Dupre , Subject: Re: terminfo/termcap and cygwin In-Reply-To: <3D2C977E.F4EC2346@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020717114041.G55180-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Alex Dupre wrote: > > In normal situation accessing to a FreeBSD 4.x machine from cygwin is not > > very pleasant: editing files is quite a pain, there are many terminal > > "glitches" like the cursor in the wrong position and garbage text. > > Sounds like Cygwin's terminal program fails to correctly implement > the ANSI 3.64 standard. Could you use an ANSI 3.64 standard terminal, > instead? Windows Telnet is standards compliant, for example. I'm not sure that cygwin does much in the way of the ANSI work. It's just a DOS box with bash in it, right? My work around for this problem was to use rxvt under cygwin which behaves almost exacly like xterm right down to cutting and pasting. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message