Terminals and consoles
Sergey Okhapkin
sos@prospect.com.ru
Mon Feb 3 02:12:00 GMT 1997
Michiel van Wessem wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not up to date on the latest state of terminal emulation in gnu-win32 -
> I haven't tried it out, but I'm a little concerned about the compatibility
> of it. Here are some obnoxious questions..
>
> How does it work? Is the entire terminfo (and termcap) stuff operational?
Console handler in cygwin.dll emulates most of ANSI escape sequences.
> Is it possible yet to port a telnet daemon and it would support all of the
> terminfo terminals?
You cannot port telnetd due to no pty support in cygwin.dll.
>
> How good is the terminal emulation for the standard console? What terminfo
> entry is it - ansi? Does curses work, do function keys work?
Yes.
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Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
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