Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> 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
File name is now cygwin.terminfo-5.2-4. Also in the same directory,
terminfo.src-5.2-4 -- the entire terminfo src database.
> >
> > 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='.
Earnie --
I've done so. See the upcoming "official" announcement for
ncurses-5.2-4.
--Chuck
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