On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:30:51AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > But when I'm using a > > terminal session, I have found that the only practical way of getting > > consistent behaviour wherever I am is to use TERM=vt100. Windows is, of > > course, the main culprit in forcing me to vt100 emulation. > I can recommend PuTTY for windows. Secure, small[1], fast, featureful > and free: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ > I'm using it now to ssh from a windows laptop to read email using > mutt in screen.
I can get it working with a Windows client, or a Mac client, or a $other_client, but I could never find any combination of voodoo that would work with *all* clients, so that I can disconnect (while leaving mutt running) then reconnect some random time later on some other platform and have it Just Work and have odd characters show up correctly. TERM=vt100 was the only way to get consistent results. Yes, I tried putty. I also tried cygwin/xfree86/xterm/openssh, to no avail. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Lefties are usually well-intentioned at least, and possess a far greater command of grammar and spelling. -- Noel, in soc.history.what-if
