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Christopher Faylor wrote: >> It accesses the console's screen contents through Win32's >> GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo() and displays it in its own window while >> hiding the actual console. I can't see a way to combine this sort of >> approach with ptys. > > If you have a captured interface then a windows console could be treated > like a pty. I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you're getting at. Isn't this what the cygwin terminal is doing already? I see a WriteConsoleOutput call in fhandler_console.cc, which manipulates the console screen content directly. > The fact that windows apps don't like cygwin ptys is why we never made > rxvt the standard interface. What would be nice is to give the user > some easy way to decide which they want. We would, of course, still get > people complaining about whichever choice they made, though. Agreed. :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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