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Re: Cygwin, ssh, and top


On 10/15/2005 8:43 PM, David Christensen wrote:
René Berber wrote:

Yes but... the problem is caused by the terminfo data you showed:
columns is not defined.
Try "echo $COLUMNS"... now "export COLUMNS=80; top"; does it work?


COLUMNS is getting set someplace:

    dpchrist@p166v:~$ echo $COLUMNS
    80


Any other ideas?

Try setting COLUMNS to 79 with the comment "export COLUMNS=79".


I had this problem when I ran the Cygwin ssh client from bash *in a CMD.EXE window*. For some reason, Debian miscalculated the COLUMNS size; it was 1 column too large. When I manually set COLUMNS (from 130 to 129 in my case), top worked correctly.

I recommend running ssh from bash in an rxvt window instead of using the CMD.EXE window. This will give you an "xterm" terminal in Debian which will work much better. I use it all the time with Debian 3.1 and have no problems.

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