irssi “Terminal doesn't support cursor movement”

I'm trying to run irssi under cygwin and it gives me this error:

$ irssi
Terminal doesn't support cursor movement
Can't initialize screen handling, quitting.
You can still use the dummy mode with -d parameter

It was working like yesterday. I don't know what I did to break it. Tried reinstalling it, didn't help.

asked Jul 13 '11 at 3:14

Alex
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	How are you using cygwin? Are you using `mintty` or the `Cygwin Bash Shell`? What is your TERM environment variable set as? `echo $TERM` at the prompt – Darren Hall Jul 14 '11 at 15:24
	Using Cygwin Bash Shell `$ echo $TERM` returns `dumb` – Alex Jul 16 '11 at 16:26
	Try using mintty with a $TERM value of either `vt100` or `xterm` instead. – Darren Hall Jul 19 '11 at 17:49

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