[lug] Command line ssh

[Tkil]

others have already responded.  to expand on their answers:

most terminal-oriented programs (those that use curses to do
full-screen display, a.k.a. "visual" programs) tend to want a terminal
to do it on.  when you use ssh with a command to execute remotely,
sshd on the far side doesn't allocate a terminal, so there is nowhere
for pine to display.

i tend to just log into the remote machine and start a basic shell,
then run visual programs from that shell.  other than the rsh/ssh
quirks (tilde as first char after newline is special), it works
flawlessly.  in fact, i'm typing this message in xemacs on kevin's
machine, which i'm connected to over ssh.

note that, on unix at least, programs like ssh and telnet are quite a
bit more transparent than terminal emulators like ncsa telnet on the
mac, kermit or procomm on dos, etc.  this has to do with more powerful
basic windows and consoles; i'm sure most people here remember
ANSI.SYS?

incoherently,
t.