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Terminal emulation under Solaris 10 x64 - how do you set your term when connecting via PC Cygwin?

I experience terminal emulation issues when connecting to Solaris (I use the same tools to connect to Linux and have never had a problem). For example, vi acts erratically when the term is set to cygwin or vt100. What do others do to solve this, and do you have to add terminfo for those cases (vt100, cygwin)? If so, where are you getting the terminfo?

Any pointers would be helpful. I use bash on Solaris 10 x64 (sunfire x4240) and have exported the TERM variable as both cygwin (which is default when using cygwin ssh to connect) and vt100. For example, in vi, the delete key changes case (in other words, it's mapped as ~). I'd love to have more control and understanding on these emulation issues. I connect with both XP and Vista and see the same issues (cygwin shell with cygwin ssh, and command shell with cygwin ssh).

SunOS mymachine 5.10 Generic_137112-02 i86pc i386 i86pc
~ >echo $TERM
vt100
~ >

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rzup

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Tried it (setting vt100 locally first), no improvement. If I go to the top of the file and move the cursor right (using 'l') the first line works, if I move down to the next line and move right characters become garbled..

omarfarid

can you run stty on both and compare?

after login, if you

echo $TERM

what do you see?

rzup

ASKER

Localmachine:

localmachine ~
$ export TERM=vt100

localmachine ~
$ stty
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
-imaxbel
-echoe -echok -echoctl -echoke

Then I connect to the server:

localmachine ~
$ ssh mymachine

Welcome to mymachine
~ >echo $TERM
vt100
~ >stty
speed 38400 baud; -parity
rows = 25; columns = 80; ypixels = 291; xpixels = 164;
erase = ^h; eol = -^?; eol2 = -^?; swtch = ;
brkint -inpck -istrip icrnl -ixany onlcr tab3
echo -echoe -echok iexten
~ >

omarfarid

can you run

stty -a

on both and compare characteristics ?

rzup

ASKER

Local CP (Cygwin shell same as previous:
$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 25; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; swtch = ^Z; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R;
werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
-iuclc -ixany -imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo -echoe -echok -echonl -noflsh -tostop -echoctl -echoke

Server (connected with ssh from the above cygwin shell):

~ >echo vt100
vt100
~ >stty -a
speed 38400 baud;
rows = 25; columns = 80; ypixels = 241; xpixels = 164;
csdata ?
eucw 1:0:0:0, scrw 1:0:0:0
intr = ^c; quit = ^\; erase = ^h; kill = ^u;
eof = ^d; eol = -^?; eol2 = -^?; swtch = <undef>;
start = ^q; stop = ^s; susp = ^z; dsusp = ^y;
rprnt = ^r; flush = ^o; werase = ^w; lnext = ^v;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -cstopb -hupcl cread -clocal -loblk -crtscts -crtsxoff -pare
xt
-ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl -iuclc
ixon -ixany -ixoff -imaxbel
isig icanon -xcase echo -echoe -echok -echonl -noflsh
-tostop -echoctl -echoprt -echoke -defecho -flusho -pendin iexten
opost -olcuc onlcr -ocrnl -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel tab3
~ >

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