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Re: Telnet again


cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 03:43:25PM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
> >OK, I've got Sergey Okhapkin's telnet, and now I can login to our Unix
> >boxes. But I can't run Emacs on them because it doesn't know what
> >terminal type I'm using. I tried setting it to VT100 but that doesn't
> >work. Does anyone know how to fix this?
> 
> The terminal type is 'cygwin' which is roughly similar to 'linux'.

The Unix system (it's SunOS 5.6) doesn't understand either of those.

> You'll probably have the best luck if you use the information from
> cygwin's /etc/termcap on your UNIX box.

Use it how? What do I do with it?

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