From: vtailor AT gte DOT net Subject: Re: Escape sequences 9 Jun 1998 02:13:51 -0700 Message-ID: <199806090529.AAA22121.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp2.mailsrvcs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Cc: vtailor AT gte DOT net > Christopher G. Faylor (cgf AT cygnus DOT com) > 6 Jun 1998 17:16:10 GMT > > >In article > <6EE807C60AFCD111995100805F57E9C001750A DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT CSC_MS_01>, >Daniel Tessier wrote: >>In the Readme.txt file that comes with B19, I found the following >>excerpt: >>"Additional terminal escape sequences recognized: scroll region setting >>via [n1;n2r and setting the console title using xterm escape >>sequence: [2;new title^G ." >> >>Does this work only for xterms, or can I use it to set the window title >>of the console in which I run bash. If it is possible, how do I do it? I >>tried echoing that escape sequence to no avail. I am using Windows NT4 >>w/SP3, and B19.1. >> > >That's my fault. It's a bug in the documentation. The character following >the should be a ] not a [. >-- I think it's really great that you are working on cleaning up the linux terminal emulation in the cygnus terminal. I assume that includes fixing the monochrome-clearscreen problem that I wrote about last month. But, I don't think that you are going far enough. I don't see why the cygnus terminal should be grafted onto the Microsoft Dos console window, with all of its known and documented limitations. I did a demonstration project on this subject, involving porting the Unix slrn news reader to a homegrown Dos stdio library. (The latest compressed executable should still be found in the Usenet `alt.binaries.news-server-comparison' news group, and will run on all versions of Windows from W3.x and up to the latest NT.) That homegrown Dos window has the advantage of being a `true' Windows application, which means it can be subclassed, and it can use, e. g., asynchronous winsocket calls. It is a trivial job to add the other Dos window functionality, such as copy-and-paste and font selection, to this window. And, it still is possible to launch `Dos' applications from the window, which naturally execute in the Microsoft console. What I am getting at is that I believe that cygnus `bash' ought to come up in its own xterm window, which is a `true' Windows window, and not a Unix emulation layer grafted onto the Microsoft console. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".