From: cgw AT pgt DOT com (Charles G Waldman)
Subject: RE: Terminal window scroll bars?
20 Sep 1998 16:34:31 -0700
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To: "Calm, Fred" <Fred DOT Calm AT compaq DOT com>
Cc: "'Scandora, Anthony E., Jr.'" <scandora AT cmt DOT anl DOT gov>,
        "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Calm, Fred writes:
 > > My favorite telnet clients all have scroll bars that allow you to look
 > > back
 > > more than 24 lines.  Can bash do the same?
 > > 
 > Assuming you're running bash in a DOS command window, check out the
 > properties dialog for the Command Prompt shortcut in the Start menu,
 > especially the layout pane. You can set both window size and size of the
 > scroll-back buffer. 

If you're running WinNT.  On Win95 you can't set the window properties
on "DOS" windows.

Assuming you have an X Server available, (I use Hummingbird) and are
willing to do some setup work, you can run an XTerm, which is
better-behaved than the #*&^%* "DOS window".


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