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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:56:16PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>James Calfee <jcalfee AT xxx DOT xxx> wrote on 04/20/2009 02:02:33 PM:
>
>> Hi Andrew.  I have change request for screen.exe under cygwin.  I did
>> not get any response from the cygwin mailing list.   I guess the request
>> is a bit too specific.  Do you know where I might direct the request?
>> 
>> In case your wondering, we are running a server program that has a DOS
>> interface.  It does not work under screen.  This program is very similar
>> to the DOS edit program which also does NOT work under screen.  So, my
>> question would be, what is required to fix screen so it will work with
>> the DOS edit program?
>> 
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Jimmy
>
>Jimmy, I saw the thread on the cygwin list.  I didn't answer there because I
>didn't have anything to add.  In fact, you did get a response there from Matt
>Wozniski, who I thought covered it as well as I could:
>
>> In general, non-cygwin programs can't be run reliably inside of an
>> application that uses cygwin PTYs, including xterm, rxvt, and screen.
>
>Maybe someone knows a solution to this, but I don't.  Although I maintain screen
>for Cygwin, I know almost nothing of the details of how terminals work.  I could
>imagine some kind of a DOS-to-Unix terminal wrapper program, but I've never seen
>one and have no idea how it would work.

...and if one was possible why wouldn't the techniques that it incorporates be
part of cygwin?

cgf

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