Arrow keys not working after telnet

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Mar 5 07:38:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:10:25AM -0500, Louis Bohm wrote:
> I wish it was just that simple... I am using the telnet feature to telnet to
> the suns in our production environment and I am not allowed to add files to
> the production machines with out project plans, QA, Testing...  An EXTREMELY
> good reason...  Is there no other way.  Something I can do on my laptop???

You could try to set TERM to `linux'.

Corinna

> 
> Thanks,
> Louis
> 
> Egor Duda wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > Monday, 05 March, 2001 Louis Bohm lbohm@lightbridge.com wrote:
> >
> > LB> Am I doing something wrong here?  I startup bash and then telnet
> > LB> over to my sun box.  Once there I find I need to change the term
> > LB> type to vt100 so I can use vi on sun.  At that point I cannot use
> > LB> my arrow keys.  Yes the old defaults still work (hjkl) but that
> > LB> still does not make things easier.
> >
> > LB> Is there something I can do to fix this?
> >
> > yes.  don't  change  the term type to vt100. instead, to make vi work,
> > copy  file  '/usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin'  (distributed  in  ncurses
> > package)  to  ~/.terminfo/c/cygwin  on the sun box, and leave $TERM as
> > is.
> >
> > Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
> >
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