Terminal settings for rsh/telnet to remote

["Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin at imageworks dot com>]

(using cygwin 1.3.2)

Hi,

I know I've seen similar things like this before in this list,  but none of
the solutions seem to be working for me....
Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can get the rxvt or cygwin
terminal or something else to work correctly when rsh-ing  to UNIX?  Am I
doing something wrong (probably)?  Could anyone steer me in the right
direction?
I've been trying for quite some time now to use cygwin terminal and/or rxvt
and/or xterm for rshelling to the Irix, sun, and linux boxes in my facility.
I thought rxvt would be the answer,  but I still go through hell trying to
edit files on the remote system.  In rxvt (x11 and standalone),  and xterm
usually,  I end up with either spurious characters, improper cursor
placement,  or  only half a page,  not always initially, but eventually.
Or,  if I work through these problems,  and log out of the remote machine,
then the local session is screwy (often refusing to scroll).  as long as I
don't  launch vi or man,  I'm usually ok...

examples of things I've tried are:   in a local rxvt window:

(on local cygwin box)
setenv TERM rxvt-cygwin
tset -s rxvt-cygwin
rsh (UNIX or Linux box)
setenv TERMINFO ~/.terminfo   (previously setup using terminfo-src-5.2-4)
setenv TERM rxvt-cygwin
tset -s rxvt-cygwin

results here are a bit better than using xterm,  but I still have a hard
time getting through a file using vi.....

I searched out  google  "terminal setup rxvt site:cygwin" an "ncurses remote
terminal site:cygwin" and many permutations of those without coming up with
a solution that seemed to work.    What am I doing wrong?

thanks for your time:
Bruce Dobrin



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