ssh to windows, terminal doesn't work.

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 23 Sep 2018 22:32:48 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> putty exists on ubuntu! Cool. I learned something... installed it, putty
> behaves the same (terminal settings are
> all wrong, editing files results in blank screens).  Did you notice that I
> am ssh'ing TO windows... not from windows?
> my laptop is ubuntu, and I am remoting into a windows 10 box.

What exactly is the point of putty on a *Linux* machine?  There are many 
flavors of terminal (xterm, gnome-terminal, any many others) + slogin/ssh/scp, 
etc. as part of the base install of *any* Linux distro...

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> 
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 4:07 AM Tedd M. V. <tmv713 at cryptolab.net> wrote:
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> > 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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