Terminal handling with the 990809 snapshot

[Glenn Spell]

On 11 Aug 1999 around  3:40PM (-0400) Chris Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:09:56PM -0400, Glenn Spell wrote:
> >If I log into Cygwin with any shell and immediately issue the
> >command "ls --color", I can see the color appear for an instant,
> >but then it disappears and everything is black and white. If I
> >continue issuing the same command, somewhere around the third to
> >the fifth try... the color will "stick".
> >
> >This behavior started with the 990626 snapshot and continues thru
> >the 990809 snapshot.
> 
> That's undoubtedly because I backed out the scroll "fixes" that
> were submitted for Windows 95.  They caused many problems for
> many people but they probably fixed that particular behavior.

I don't know about what Keith Reynolds did, but Kazuhiro Fujieda
seems to have put considerable effort into the scroll patches.

Also, I never witnessed any of the problems reported with the
patches. Perhaps there's also a termcap problem. I did, however,
witness the slowness problems that Kazuhiro was working on.

There are screen attributes and display performance issues still
outstanding. I'd work on this if I knew how. Can the issue be
"revisited"?

-glenn

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