On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:51:30AM -0600, Richard Hoffbeck wrote:
> Robert P. Goldman wrote:
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> >I was just wondering if anyone else has used mutt on Linux through a
> >cygwin terminal.  I've been doing this, and it works quite badly ---
> >mutt doesn't seem to grok the cygwin terminal right, and gets the
> >display all goofed up.  I don't THINK that this is a cygwin problem,
> >because the terminal works fine, and xemacs (in a cygwin terminal)
> >also works fine.

> 
> I checked dejanews and it seems that the Linux termcap entry has 
> problems for the cygwin terminal and the preferred solution was to grab 
> a more recent termcap definition (I think freebsd was the preferred one) 
> and install it on the linux box.

My solution was to get XFree working under Cygwin, and then log
into other boxes with a real xterm, instead of the cygwin term.

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