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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:11:00 +0300
From: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua>
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To: fieldhouse AT logica DOT com (Dirk Fieldhouse)
CC: "Garrett Sylvester" <gsylvester AT gdats DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re[2]: Scrollable DOS Box under Win95/98
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Hello Dirk,

Dirk Fieldhouse <fieldhouse AT logica DOT com> wrote:

DF> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:12:06 -0400, "Garrett Sylvester" <gsylvester at gdats dot com> wrote:

>> Is it possible to get a scrollable screen (DOS box) whose buffer has more
>> than 50 lines when I run the Cygnus BASH shell and utilities under WIn 95
>> or 98? I've looked all over for some way to do this, but no joy. (I know
>> you can do it with NT.)

DF> This is a limitation of the 'console subsystem', such as it is, in W9x (conagent, winoa386, etc), so even using the W95 version of cmd.exe doesn't help. You could possibly rewrite it - rather you
DF> than me. However, search the archives for references to rxvt which might give you what you want for Cygwin purposes.

#include <windows.h>

main()
{
  COORD c={100,100};
  SetConsoleScreenBufferSize(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),c);
}

works for both fullscreen shell I use (FAR) and cygwin's bash.

      It doesn't work for command.com but probably just because it's
dos app, not win32.


Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua



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