Need help on terminal emulation in Cygwin console

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:02:41PM +0200, Tomasz Pona wrote:
>Hello,
>
>1st much thanks to Charles Wilson for inetutils update.
>
>I have latest Cygwin/inetutils installed.
>
>Quick problem explanation:
>- doing "telnet localhost" (and not only localhost)
>- connection process and remote session control is 100% OK
>however...
>- getting a space before every entered character (even during login)
>- backspace doesn't remove characters but otherwise seems to work (typing
>garbage, deleting it and hitting ENTER produces clean prompt, while garbage
>stays in previous line)
>
>Does this mean char echoing isn't working right?

It sounds like you may have your TERM environment variable set incorrectly.

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cgf

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