When using CYGWIN to telnet to an AIX machine I got the follo wing error" 0602-108 CYGWIN is not a recognized terminal type "

[Jonathan Fosburgh]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:45:27 -0400
meshkp@pjm.com wrote:

> Thank you.
> 
> setting TERM to xterm fixed the ERROR but it CAUSED a Different set of problems
> while using "vi" editor. it created a cascading effect example(below) and made
> editing files impossible. Other configuration settings On my NT workstation I
> use CYGWIN shell to Telnet to LINUX -no problem and I am set with bash shell
> when through CYGWIN I telnet to AIX  I am set up with korn shell and when I try
> to use VI 

Set your term on AIX to vt100.  It will work a lot better. The xterm emulation on AIX doesn't always work very well.

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