CURRENT port of OpenSSH for Windows available

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:52:03PM -0700, packard wrote:
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>  On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>  > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 08:20:47AM -0700, Sean P. Kane wrote:
>  > > Just thought that I'd point out that there is a CURRENT port of OpenSSH
>  > > for Windows available at http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/
>  > > <http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/>  . I stumbled upon it today
>  > > and noticed that it was mentioned on your web site. It is OpenSSH v2.9p1
>  > > on Windows and includes ssh, scp, and sftp clients and servers.
>  >
>  > Which is EXACTLY the Cygwin version of OpenSSH. Unfortunately Mark
>  > has packed it w/o the sources for Cygwin which violates the GPL.
>  
> The Cygwin version is nice in speed and functionality, but from
> my experience does not emulate a VT100 enough to use vi to edit
> a file.  It identifies its term type as "cygwin", which defaults
> to "dumb" on several existing ISPs and Solaris hosts, then when
> I specifically set the TERM= variable to a VT100, VT220, or dtterm
> (for Solaris) it doesn't display the edited file with any
> particular attention to line and cursor alignment, not to mention
> backward scrolling.

You can put the cygwin terminfo into your home directory on the
host and you can do similar with the cygwin tercap entry. Newer
Linux versions already have termcap and terminfo entries for
cygwin.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen at redhat.com