Cygwin termcap entry for Solaris

[Earnie Boyd]

--- 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,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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