problem with cygwin box (termcap?)

[Larry Hall]

At 03:56 PM 9/22/2004, you wrote:
>I launch a cygwin "box" (command window) on my Windows 2000 machine.
>I run ssh to connect to a shell account running a variant of BSD Unix.
>
>Whenever I use the program "less" on that shell account, it complains
>    "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional."  
>Another user has stated that tin (the news reader) complains 
>    "tin: Terminal must have clear to end-of-screen (cd)
>I suspect that these issues are related.  Can the termcap entry for
>cygwin be improved?  Or is this truly a limitation of the cygwin box?


What terminal are you using?  'cygwin'?  That's the default.  It's 
unlikely that your BSD box knows it if you haven't told it about it.  Do
so or try a related terminal type.



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