From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Terminals and consoles
3 Feb 1997 03:54:07 -0800 :
Sender:	daemon AT cygnus DOT com
Approved:	cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Distribution:	cygnus
Message-ID:	<01BC11CD.72DB3DF0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
Original-To:	gnu-win32 <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"'Michiel van Wessem'"
	<jmvw AT xs4all DOT nl>
Encoding:	28 TEXT
Original-Sender:	owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Michiel van Wessem wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm not up to date on the latest state of terminal emulation in gnu-win32 -
> I haven't tried it out, but I'm a little concerned about the compatibility
> of it. Here are some obnoxious questions..
> 
> How does it work? Is the entire terminfo (and termcap) stuff operational?

Console handler in cygwin.dll emulates most of ANSI escape sequences.

> Is it possible yet to port a telnet daemon and it would support all of the
> terminfo terminals?

You cannot port telnetd due to no pty support in cygwin.dll.

> 
> How good is the terminal emulation for the standard console? What terminfo
> entry is it - ansi? Does curses work, do function keys work? 

Yes. 


-- 
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.


-
For help on using this list, send a message to
"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".

- Raw text -