minicom over ssh

I'm trying to run minicom over ssh. Everything works if I ssh first, get
a session going, then run minicom.

But if I try

ssh tooth "minicom /dev/ttya02"

I get

No cursor motion capability (cm)

and a prompt.

From this I assume that ssh is not sending any term info. I need
to send the term type, size, etc. Reading the man page and googling
around has not shed any light on this. How do I forward or generate the
appropriate information?

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:43:50 -0800, Captain Dondo
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I'm trying to run minicom over ssh. Everything works if I ssh first, get
> a session going, then run minicom.
>

ssh -t tooth "mincom /dev/ttya02"

--
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that
you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
-- Otto Von Bismarck

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:12:36 -0500, Bill Marcum wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:43:50 -0800, Captain Dondo
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> I'm trying to run minicom over ssh. Everything works if I ssh first, get
>> a session going, then run minicom.
>>
>
> ssh -t tooth "mincom /dev/ttya02"

OK, thanks. That worked perfectly.

Next question:

How do I tell minicom and/or the remote session that I have a big text
screen?

I am using

/usr/bin/minicom -t pcvt50w -c on /dev/ttya02

which should give me a 130x50 text screen.

but on the remote end, the session still shows up as

COLUMNS=80
LINES=24
TERM=tv100

and everything gets screwed up if I try to use vi or less. I either get
to use only a 80x24 corner of the screen, or all the text scrolls along on
line 24.

If I change the above env vars by hand to match the termcap entry for
pcvt50w:

COLUMNS=130
LINES=50
TERM=pcvt50w

everything works fine.

I am running in text mode when I do this...

Thanks.

Captain Dondo <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>which should give me a 130x50 text screen.

>but on the remote end, the session still shows up as

>COLUMNS=80
>LINES=24
>TERM=tv100

Did you try " xminicom "?
It's a long time ago that I used that command to start minicom.
In the first stage, minicom did come up with 80*24; but I could
drag that window to be bigger.
You probably have to use "ssh -X ..."

Greetings, Holger