Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:43:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Alex Dupre <sysadmin@alexdupre.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: terminfo/termcap and cygwin Message-ID: <20020717114041.G55180-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <3D2C977E.F4EC2346@mindspring.com>
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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
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