Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/10/14/01:41:19
I took this tip and made a small package out of it. I hope it will be
useful.
--Chuck
Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>
> Hello Dirk,
>
> Dirk Fieldhouse <fieldhouse AT logica DOT com> wrote:
>
> DF> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:12:06 -0400, "Garrett Sylvester" <gsylvester at gdats dot com> wrote:
>
> >> Is it possible to get a scrollable screen (DOS box) whose buffer has more
> >> than 50 lines when I run the Cygnus BASH shell and utilities under WIn 95
> >> or 98? I've looked all over for some way to do this, but no joy. (I know
> >> you can do it with NT.)
>
> DF> This is a limitation of the 'console subsystem', such as it is, in W9x (conagent, winoa386, etc), so even using the W95 version of cmd.exe doesn't help. You could possibly rewrite it - rather you
> DF> than me. However, search the archives for references to rxvt which might give you what you want for Cygwin purposes.
>
> #include <windows.h>
>
> main()
> {
> COORD c={100,100};
> SetConsoleScreenBufferSize(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),c);
> }
>
> works for both fullscreen shell I use (FAR) and cygwin's bash.
>
> It doesn't work for command.com but probably just because it's
> dos app, not win32.
>
> Best regards,
> Paul mailto:paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua
>
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