telnet and TERM

David Starks-Browning starksb@ebi.ac.uk
Fri Oct 5 05:01:00 GMT 2001


On Friday 5 Oct 01, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thierry_Pirot?= writes:
> Hello, 
> 
> I use cygwin's telnet to connect to a unix system.  
> Then TERM=cygwin and vi won't run properly. 
> What should I do ?

My advice is to use rxvt instead, which should set TERM=xterm, which
should work on your unix system.  Rxvt has other advantages, too.

Regards,
David


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