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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:46:05PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>Maybe someone knows a solution to this, but I don't.  ?Although I
>>maintain screen for Cygwin, I know almost nothing of the details of how
>>terminals work.  ?I could imagine some kind of a DOS-to-Unix terminal
>>wrapper program, but I've never seen one and have no idea how it would
>>work.
>
>It probably can't be done as long as Microsoft doesn't provide a
>"pseudo-console" interface that would allow a third-party program to
>fully take over the role of a console window.  In the meantime, the
>best that can be done is the lipstick-on-a-pig approach taken by
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/, which uses Win32 interfaces
>for accessing a console's screen contents and paints its own version of
>that.

It can be done using the same technique as Console2:

http://console.sourceforge.net

So there is some justification in invoking the "too lazy" clause.  I've
started down the path of implementing ptys using console functions a
couple of times and have always turned back due to the amount of work it
would end up taking.

cgf

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