From: cjjohans AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi (Carl J R Johansson) Subject: RE: less + terminal type 5 Dec 1996 17:34:33 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Sender: cjjohans AT vesuri DOT Helsinki DOT FI Original-To: "Alan Jonckheere (630)840-3158" Original-cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <961203094509.4040092d@D0SFB.FNAL.GOV> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Alan Jonckheere (630)840-3158 wrote: > > =20 > > I have gotten less, ncurses, ... to build with little problem under Wi= n95 on my PC. > > However, the DOS window is pretty basic and thinks it is of type "dumb= ". Can anyone > > suggest a better tyerminal emulator, or whatever that allows one to ha= ve scroll bars, > > use less, and whatever under DOS? > > NB. I'm a unix user who has no real experience with DOS and PC's. > > =20 > > =20 > > =09=09=09=09Stephen Meatheringham > > =09=09=09=09Mt. Stromlo Observatory > > =09=09=09=09Private Bag, Weston Creek P.O. > > =09=09=09=09ACT 2611, AUSTRALIA > > =09=09=09=09phone : +61 6 2490293 > > =09=09=09=09email : sjm AT mso DOT anu DOT edu DOT au > > - >=20 > Yes the Command Prompt window is pretty dumb, but... >=20 > If all you want is scroll bars on your Command Prompt window, and who doe= sn't > need at *least* that, all you need to do is go to your Control Panel, Con= sole > and set the Screen Buffer Size to something reasonable. Anything larger t= han > the Window Size will result in scroll bars appearing. >=20 I bel=F6ievethis is NT-specific (the 'terminal window' of W95 is only command.com's PIF file). The only relief on W95 that I have found is=20 MODE CON LINES=3D50 in autoexec.bat or on the prompt. Maybe something like 4DOS/4NT adds scroll bars, but I doubt it. cj - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".