question about cygwin terminal type
Thomas Dickey
dickey@herndon4.his.com
Mon Oct 30 01:56:00 GMT 2000
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:10:36AM -0330, Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > That's probably incorrect (cygwin's terminal emulator differs in several
> > features that are normally in "ansi"), and is likely done to make it simple to
> > setup on the remote host. Just to satisfy my own curiousity I'll retest cygwin
> > against "ansi" and see if I missed anything when making that terminfo entry.
>
> Thanks. Too bad I can't make that terminal a little bit wider. That's
> probably a limitation in Windows' shell client and I bet you they
> did it on purpose. With Win2K you can maximize it vertically but you
> still can't maximize the window horizontally.
;-)
> > SIGWINCH isn't related to the $TERM value (it's whether or not your
> > host supports the negotiations about window size)
>
> Does Win2K support SIGWINCH?
I'm not sure (I'm mostly - in that line - using NT4, though we've a couple
W2K machines in the lab). I don't see why not (on NT, the vendor's telnet
doesn't do it, but other applications such as Tera Term Pro do).
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