Scrollable DOS Box under Win95/98

[Ajit George]

Are you making it publicly available?

Ajit

-----Original Message-----
From:	cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
[ mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com ] On Behalf Of Charles S. Wilson
Sent:	Thursday, October 14, 1999 12:42 AM
To:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject:	Re: Scrollable DOS Box under Win95/98

I took this tip and made a small package out of it. I hope it will be
useful.

--Chuck


Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>
> Hello Dirk,
>
> Dirk Fieldhouse <fieldhouse@logica.com> wrote:
>
> DF> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:12:06 -0400, "Garrett Sylvester" <gsylvester at
gdats dot com> wrote:
>
> >> Is it possible to get a scrollable screen (DOS box) whose buffer has
more
> >> than 50 lines when I run the Cygnus BASH shell and utilities under WIn
95
> >> or 98? I've looked all over for some way to do this, but no joy. (I
know
> >> you can do it with NT.)
>
> DF> This is a limitation of the 'console subsystem', such as it is, in W9x
(conagent, winoa386, etc), so even using the W95 version of cmd.exe doesn't
help. You could possibly rewrite it - rather you
> DF> than me. However, search the archives for references to rxvt which
might give you what you want for Cygwin purposes.
>
> #include <windows.h>
>
> main()
> {
>   COORD c={100,100};
>   SetConsoleScreenBufferSize(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),c);
> }
>
> works for both fullscreen shell I use (FAR) and cygwin's bash.
>
>       It doesn't work for command.com but probably just because it's
> dos app, not win32.
>
> Best regards,
>  Paul                            mailto:paul-ml@is.lg.ua
>
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