A cygwin mosh question

[Eliot Moss]

On 11/1/2012 9:05 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 10/31/2012 1:46 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> After seeing the announcement on mosh, I decided to install it and
>> try it out.  I installed it on a remote server running Red Hat style
>> Linux using yum, and on my laptop using cygwin.  Sadly, I have run
>> into some problems:
>>
>> 1) The cygwin install does not include the dependency on the
>>     IO:Tty package.  I installed that manually, using cpan.
>>
>> 2) When I try to mosh to my remote server, all I ever get is
>>     "Hangup".  Since there does not seem to be any "verbose mode",
>>     I am not sure how to diagnose this further.
>
> I installed the latest version today and was able to get things
> working.  (It prints out more about issues connecting, which
> allowed me to resolve them.)
>
> - The remote end was not setting LANG for UTF-8.  I had to do this
>    by: mosh --server='mosh-server new -l LANG=en_US.UTF-8'
>
> - I discovered that mosh does not support an xterm escape sequence
>    that I use, namely one to *read* the window icon label: CSI 20 t
>    and also CSI 11 t (reports whether the window is iconified).  My
>    main purpose is to save and use the icon label as the base for
>    setting a longer label or title
>
> I have worked around this by setting an extra environment variable
> when using mosh, and skipping the reading of the icon label in that
> case.
>
> However, all of this is not really cygwin-specific, so I'll stop
> there.
>
> However, the failure to install the IO:Tty dependency may be relevant.
> Is there an easy way I can test that again?  What would I uninstall
> and reinstall to check?  That is, cpan will install things, but how
> would I *un*-install IO:Tty to check whether cygwin install of mosh
> loads it?

Oh, I think I get it now, after digging further into what the install
of mosh actually does: the newer versions do not use perl, but work
directly -- is that right?  If so, then the lack of dependence is
correct, and I apologize for the extra chatter!

Regards -- EM

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