SSH newbie

[Parker, Ron]

> I can connect with SSH for Cygnus on my favorites sites:
> but I CANNOT use classical tools as `less', `clear', `top',...
> without getting an error message or a warnning message like:
> 
> 'cygwin': unknown terminal type

The answer is to change your TERM environment variable.  If you are
connecting to linux machines, set it to 'linux'.  The 'cygwin' terminal type
is a superset of 'linux'.  If you are connecting to non-linux machines set
it to 'ansi'.  IIRC 'linux' is a superset of 'ansi'.