Re: Cygwin termcap entry for Solaris

[Steven Curtis <sjc at qx dot net>]

Did not mean to post that message twice.  I thought the first one didn't get through.  Anyway, I've tried setting the TERM env var to "ansi" and vi still does not work correctly.  I tried it again just to verify, and it still doesn't work.  I try editing my .login file that has tabs and such, and vi paints characters where there aren't any, and other strange anomalies.  Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Steve

> 
> From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2000/12/01 Fri PM 12:26:09 EST
> To: sjc@qx.net, cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Cygwin termcap entry for Solaris
> 
> --- Steven Curtis <sjc@qx.net> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I regularly telnet net from a cygwin terminal to a Solaris box, and have
> > never gotten vi to respond correctly regardless of what I set my TERM env var
> > to.  I've tried vt100, vt220, ansi, and xter.  None seem to work properly. 
> > Lately, I've tried grafting cygwin termcap entries from other Unix machines. 
> > I've tried entries from an OpenBSD machine and a Linux machine, but captoinfo
> > on Solaris never seems to be able to grok the entries.  It complains several
> > times of "Termcap entry is too long" or "termcap code is not a valid name". 
> > The resulting terminfo entries using tic on the output do a better job than
> > adjusting the TERM env var, but they all have different problems.  I'm no
> > termcap guru and couldn't write a valid entry to save my life.  Has anyone
> > found or written a complete and correct termcap entry for a cygwin terminal
> > type that works on Solaris?
> > 
> 
> 1) leave the client side setting CYGWIN.
> 2) after managing to login change TERM to ansi.
> 
> YMMV,
> 
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