Error opening terminal: cygwin.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr  4 02:13, iw2nzm wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I apologize if my English is not so good, I'm write from Italy.
> I'm a newbye in linux systems and cygwin too. I'm trying to edit a file with
> nano through an ssh connection.
> I have a machine on my LAN (Western Digital NAS) and I'm able to make an ssh
> connection from my dekstop (Windows XP). On both machines I installed nano.
> 
> In fact, launching nano from my PC will run the editor. Once logged-in to
> the remote machine it will raise the following error:
> 
> Error opening terminal: cygwin.

Your remote machine is probably missing the terminfo file for the cygwin
terminal type.  You could copy the file from a machine which has that
file, or, as a temporary hack, try to set terminal type to "linux" or
"xterm".


Corinna

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