Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/28/01:54:13
On 28 Nov 1996, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 5. Windows 3.1 won't start inside bash.
You shouldn't expect anything else. When `bash' runs, your machine is in
protected mode under a DPMI host, but Windows needs to install its own
DOS extender and DPMI host. So this will never, and should never, work.
> 6. bash hangs after certain commands when started from inside Windows 3.1
Which ones? Can you be more specific?
> Now if only someone can tell me how to bind the arrow keys to the bash
> history commands, I'd post the nifty bash Icon I draw yesterday!!!
AFAIK, `bash' uses the GNU `readline' library to read its input, and the
DJGPP port of `readline' reads the keyboard in a way that doesn't know
about the arrows and the rest of editing keys. Without changing the way
`readline' works on MSDOS, I guess the answer is: you can't. (It is the
same in GDB, btw.) Somebody should sit down and improve the port of
`readline', IMHO.
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