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RE: SSH newbie
- To: Jerome Benoit <JGMBenoit at Wanadoo dot fr>, Cygnus <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: SSH newbie
- From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:24:43 -0500
> I can connect with SSH for Cygnus on my favorites sites:
> but I CANNOT use classical tools as `less', `clear', `top',...
> without getting an error message or a warnning message like:
>
> 'cygwin': unknown terminal type
The answer is to change your TERM environment variable. If you are
connecting to linux machines, set it to 'linux'. The 'cygwin' terminal type
is a superset of 'linux'. If you are connecting to non-linux machines set
it to 'ansi'. IIRC 'linux' is a superset of 'ansi'.
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