Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/10/14/12:17:07
Oops. I *thought* I sent an [ANN] immediately after posting the message
you responded to, but it never made it. (Re)post follows.
--Chuck
Ajit George wrote:
>
> Are you making it publicly available?
>
> Ajit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com] On Behalf Of Charles S. Wilson
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 12:42 AM
> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Re: Scrollable DOS Box under Win95/98
>
> 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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