[CLUE-Tech] ncurses ssh question.

[Dave Price]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:53:18AM -0700, Dale Hawkins wrote:
> David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> writes:
> 
> > When I run ncurses apps (like dselect or yast2) over ssh, they don't
> > display correctly.  They display letters with accents or dots or
> > whatever instead of the "line art" characters.  I think my terminal
> > type is linux, and this is on cygwin bash.  Anyone have any idea what
> > I need to change?
> 
> I am pretty sure the problem is with your front set.  If there is a
> font which looks good, I just ignore the "graphical" character
> problems.

I see this problem when I run ssh (mutt) on a cygwin system; If your
'client' is indeed a linux box, check that your $TERM is either 'xterm'
or 'linux'.  Either of these settings work here.   (I never have found a
$TERM setting that gets the line characters right with cygwin)

aloha,
dave