From: winans AT ganymede DOT net (John Winans) Subject: Re: xterm for win32 4 Mar 1997 12:09:09 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199703041443.IAA23490.cygnus.gnu-win32@pub.ganymede.net> Original-To: jp AT nuancecom DOT com, skay AT powersoft DOT com Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >At 06:22 PM 3/3/97 -0500, Scott Kay wrote: >>>>>>> "JP" == JP Shipherd writes: >> >> JP> Has anyone found anything like an xterm that they can use as a >> JP> substitue for the cmd window on NT? >> >> JP> I really miss the scroll bar and simple cut and paste. >> >> If you just want these two items you can add them easily to your >>native NT command window. Just access the "Properties" menu entry on >>the command prompt and set the "Screen Buffer Size" field in the >>"layout" tab control. Setting the "Height" to something like 2000 >>gives a nice scroll buffer, like an xterm. > >This is definitly handy but after 2000 lines the scroll bar just >evaporates. Instead of getting rid of the oldest 1 every time it needs to >add a new one (like an xterm does). This can be quite disconcerting. I have been watching this thread for a little while and I feel much the same about the nastiness of the windows dos (and telnet) windows. I wrote a fairly faithful replacement for xterm in Java that includes a simple telnet client. You can check it out at http://www.ganymede.net/jxterm I have only started looking at the cygnus work to figure out if I could run their bash from within my Java app somehow. I figure I could start up an inetd and telnet into localhost, or wrap bash in a native java method that can return a java.io.InputStream and java.io.OutputStream that I can use instead of the NVT logic in JXTerm. I suspect that starting up inetd would be easy to the gnu-win32 initiated. Is there support in the gnu-win32 environmet that can cover the work of the pty? Does gnu-win32 know of terminfo/termcap yet? Any gurus out there care to comment on this? --John Winans - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".