Cygwin, ssh, and top

[David Rothenberger]

On 10/15/2005 8:43 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> René Berber wrote:
> 
>>Yes but... the problem is caused by the terminfo data you showed:
>>columns is not defined.
>>Try "echo $COLUMNS"... now "export COLUMNS=80; top"; does it work?
> 
> 
> COLUMNS is getting set someplace:
> 
>     dpchrist@p166v:~$ echo $COLUMNS
>     80
> 
> 
> Any other ideas?

Try setting COLUMNS to 79 with the comment "export COLUMNS=79".

I had this problem when I ran the Cygwin ssh client from bash *in a 
CMD.EXE window*. For some reason, Debian miscalculated the COLUMNS size; 
it was 1 column too large. When I manually set COLUMNS (from 130 to 129 
in my case), top worked correctly.

I recommend running ssh from bash in an rxvt window instead of using the 
CMD.EXE window. This will give you an "xterm" terminal in Debian which 
will work much better. I use it all the time with Debian 3.1 and have no 
problems.

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