Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> This is because you are running in a DOS box locally, and the remote app
> is using (a remote version of) ncurses. The DOS box ain't linux. What
> you want to do is set TERM=cygwin, but then you need to instruct the
> remote machine in what "cygwin" means
> . Download the following file:
>
> http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygwin.terminfo
>
> which is an excerpt from the ncurses-5.2-4-src.tar.gz terminfo.src. Put
> cygwin.terminfo on the remote machine, and run 'tic cygwin.terminfo' on
> that machine. This should create a partial terminfo database in
> ~/.terminfo/* on the remote machine, "teaching" it about TERM=cygwin.
>
Be sure to `export TERMINFO='~/.terminfo'' in order for tic to put this
in your home directory. Chuck, you needed to include all dependency
definitions. Dependencies can be found from a search of `use='.
Cheers,
Earnie.
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