From: Martin Str|mberg Subject: Re: Shells on DJGPP (a bit long) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <000701c2220d$767b3360$61037d8a AT L71021637> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (NetBSD/1.5_BETA (alpha)) Message-ID: <1025705504.849967@queeg.ludd.luth.se> Cache-Post-Path: queeg.ludd.luth.se!unknown AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: 03 Jul 2002 14:11:45 GMT Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Jul 2002 14:11:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: queeg.ludd.luth.se X-Trace: 1025705505 news.luth.se 464 130.240.16.109 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Rich Simoes wrote: : The BASH port does not work as I had hoped when it comes to a terminal : window. On other platforms you get a terminal window. Might be an xterm : or one that's provided with someone's CDE. A terminal window has characteristics : that a user can customize such as size, color, memory, etc. When a terminal window : is open, it usually runs a shell application. The shell uses much of the characteristic : of the terminal window. Afterall, the shell is just an application running in the terminal : window. On the PeeCee we have cmd.exe. Would this be analogous to a terminal : window on UNIX? If so, is it possible to run a UNIX like shell such as BASH or : anything else on the PeeCee window and have it use the characteristics of that window. : I did some searching in the archives and what I found was that the current implementation : of BASH on DJGPP kind of runs like a terminal and shell combined into one, but : doesn't give me any control over the window. I see that everyone manages using a That's because DJGPP programs are DOZE programs and that window you get to run bash in is the window WINDOZE provides for DOZE programs. If you really need that terminal window behaviour you must go elsewhere. Cygwin and MinGW32 is real WINDOZE programs so they ought to have some better terminal behaviour (if WINDOZE is able to provide this and as Microsnoft is trying to remove CLI I'm not so sure about that). Otherwise I suggest you scrap WINDOZE and go with Linux. That'll be very Unix-like. Right, MartinS