On Apr 4 02:13, iw2nzm wrote: > > > Hello, > > I apologize if my English is not so good, I'm write from Italy. > I'm a newbye in linux systems and cygwin too. I'm trying to edit a file with > nano through an ssh connection. > I have a machine on my LAN (Western Digital NAS) and I'm able to make an ssh > connection from my dekstop (Windows XP). On both machines I installed nano. > > In fact, launching nano from my PC will run the editor. Once logged-in to > the remote machine it will raise the following error: > > Error opening terminal: cygwin.
Your remote machine is probably missing the terminfo file for the cygwin terminal type. You could copy the file from a machine which has that file, or, as a temporary hack, try to set terminal type to "linux" or "xterm". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/