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On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:08:21AM +0200, d DOT sastre DOT medina AT gmail DOT com wrote:
>On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 11:40:01AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> I'm receiving this error message when trying to start
>> lynx browser:
>> 
>> [C:\]$lynx
>> Error opening terminal: cygwin.
>
>Hello,
>
>What does `echo $TERM' tells you? (I'm guessing TERM=cygwin)
>Does `export TERM=xterm' solve the problem?
>Note that it works for me whatever TERM is: cygwin, xterm, screen...
>I can only force to fail if I set TERM to nonsense `TERM=sjdfjsfjsf'
>
>(What I don't know is why TERM=cygwin fails for you)

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