ssh to windows, terminal doesn't work.

[Tedd M. V.]

Peter Silva <peter at bsqt.homeip.net> writes:

> I enabled ssh server on a windows desktop, and I can now ssh to it from my ubuntu laptop, and run cmd.exe, powershell and bash (WSL) which all work
> fine, except that in none of them do terminal applications work properly. *man* shows me the the first page, and then subsequent pages are scrunched on
> the last line. vim does very weird stuff. the whole window goes blank when I delete a line, ^L brings it back, but the cursor is always off by one line. it's
> unusable.
>
> I tried asking on an MS forum, no response so far. Any ideas what to look at?

Some application don't work unless run on a proper Terminal emulator,
for example I use Emacs for many things but both Terms don't work with
nothing that created any sort of 'graphics'.

Try Putty, it may be more robust.

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