Thank you both for the explanations. The differnece between a "terminal" (as in cygwin console) and a "terminal emulator" (as in hyperterm) finally clicked for me. I am interfacing (using telnet) to an application that expects an ansi terminal and this is just not possible with the cygwin console.
While running X-Windows, I know I can do the key mapping feature of X to accomplish the above for, say, xterm or another (virtual) terminal application. Randall suggested looking into RXVT and I did briefly. It appears that RXVT is also X based. I am looking for a solution that does not need X-Windows and is hopefully bundled with Cygwin. I understand your statment "Cygwin emulates the cygwin term type" to mean that key code generation is done in the cygwin1.dll (as Randall said before). So in order to emulate another terminal type I need something like kermit or hyperterm and can also do telnet. Are there any vt100 or ansi terminal emulators shipped as a part of cygwin that don't require X-Windows and can do telnet? Regards, Reza -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/