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Re: nano and TERM


Hmm, unable to reproduce your problem here so far,
prehaps some more details would be useful.

Regards,
Gareth - nano packaging type guy.
----- Original Message -----
From: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Cc: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 6:05 PM
Subject: nano and TERM


> Possibly this is a slight simplification, but broadly speaking is the
> following an accurate description of things?
>
> Assuming all necessary paths exist, Windows executables (fc, for instance;
> can't find much else that's any use) can be called from within Cygwin; and
> vice-versa (ls, md5sum, diff; any number of useful others). That's why
find,
> sort, etc can be problematic, if a user ends up calling the alternative
> version to that required.
>
> Lately (can't remember when it started) I've been unable to use nano from
> outside Cygwin: I get a "Error opening terminal: cygwin" message. (On the
> other hand, pico works fine.) Please can you tell me whether this is a
minor
> correct-able glitch in nano or whether there's a deeper problem (like,
I've
> misunderstood the dual-use principle described above).
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fergus
>
>
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