Re: Problem with tcsh?

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "Darren Dunham" <ddunham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:VWLnf.32080$7h7.7001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>> Whoa, starting up a whole X server just to remotely log in? That might
>> be a little heavyweight. I generally prefer 'rxvt' to do simple shell
>> stuff.

> For that, I tend to use Putty. It's a better terminal emulator than the bare
> Cygwin one. But yes, for having the X applications display locally, I find
> it very handy to have an X server running.

I don't have enough RAM on my laptop, so I tend to not run X. I finally
mainly switched from putty to rxvt/openssh for one major reason: Every
time I run putty, it does something to putty.rnd that confuses the
"synchronize folders" bit in windows. I keep my home dir synced with a
server periodically. After running putty, it declares that the file has
changed on both sides (when of course it hasn't). Openssh doesn't
trigger this annoyance.

>> However, neither might be available for the OP. There are some SSH
>> distributions for XP that just bundle enough of the cygwin tools to get
>> it running. I doubt that X is included in them.
>>
>> I would try just setting TERM=vt100 after logging in and seeing how the
>> emulation works. If that's not good enough, then go for a more complete
>> cygwin installation (with X and/or rxvt), or something other than
>> openssh like 'putty'.

> That seems completely reasonable, but I've had some difficulties with the
> terminal emulation in bare Cygwin shell prompts. I find the xterm terminal
> emulation to be generally superior.

Oh, the bare cygwin shell (dos window) is awful. If I weren't running
the rxvt window, I wouldn't consider it. An xterm is even better, but
takes more resources if you don't otherwise need X.

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Darren Dunham ddunham@xxxxxxxx
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
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