After years of ignorance I discovered the wonderful GNU screen program on my GNU/Linux system. Basically screen is a window manager for terminals or terminal sessions. But after installing the Cygwin package on my Windows box I ended up with this error message after trying to invoke screen:
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This is unlikely to help others, but I’ll keep it as a reference… The culprit was a messed up installation. I had the following directories:
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I just had to delete the empty directories and rename tabset(2) and terminfo(2)
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and now screen works just fine with Cygwin.