X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:46:05 +0100 Message-ID: <416096c60904211046k11a9df2cs95de21653e3ed7df@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: DOS programs under "screen" From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > Maybe someone knows a solution to this, but I don't. =A0Although I mainta= in screen > for Cygwin, I know almost nothing of the details of how terminals work. = =A0I could > imagine some kind of a DOS-to-Unix terminal wrapper program, but I've nev= er > 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. Andy ps: Actually, would it be possible to invoke a process with all the Win32 console functions overwritten by custom ones? (That would of course require an awful lot of work ...) -- 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/