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From: Jason Hood <jadoxa AT yahoo DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Improved dos box for bash with scrollable window ???
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:21:18 +1000
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Boris New wrote:
> 
> In peruse you need to press "Scroll Lock" to access your buffer and
> then escape to be able to type commands again. In a dos box I think
> that it would be great just to use the scrollbar. (and not having to
> use buttons). I found some tools  (like take command) doing that but
> they had problems with djgpp tools.

The scrollbar is part of Windows, not DOS. I guess it might be possible
to replace the last column of the DOS screen with a scrollbar, or maybe
use say Alt+PgUp/Dn to scroll the buffer. I could possibly do the keys,
but not the scrollbar (that is to say, I probably could do the scrollbar,
but I'm not going to).

An alternative solution is to resize the DOS-box to 128 rows (the largest
possible, I believe). Of course, this means any screen-oriented program is
going to think it's 128 lines high, but if all you're using is bash it
should be fine. http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/tm/tm0305.zip (62k) contains
WTM.COM which will allow you to do just that (it *won't* work full screen,
nor will it work in NT/2K/XP).

Jason.