Scrollable DOS Box under Win95/98

[Charles S. Wilson]

Oops. I *thought* I sent an [ANN] immediately after posting the message
you responded to, but it never made it. (Re)post follows.

--Chuck


Ajit George wrote:
> 
> 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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