Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "Ajit George" To: "Charles S. Wilson" , Subject: RE: Scrollable DOS Box under Win95/98 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 01:14:25 -0500 Message-ID: <000001bf160b$5d664ce0$830120d0@abita.kurianinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <38056D33.8531D644@ece.gatech.edu> Are you making it publicly available? Ajit -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com] On Behalf Of Charles S. Wilson Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 12:42 AM To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Scrollable DOS Box under Win95/98 I took this tip and made a small package out of it. I hope it will be useful. --Chuck Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > > Hello Dirk, > > Dirk Fieldhouse wrote: > > DF> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:12:06 -0400, "Garrett Sylvester" 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 > > 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 > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com