On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:46:05PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >Andrew Schulman wrote: >>Maybe someone knows a solution to this, but I don't. ?Although I >>maintain screen for Cygwin, I know almost nothing of the details of how >>terminals work. ?I could imagine some kind of a DOS-to-Unix terminal >>wrapper program, but I've never seen one and have no idea how it would >>work. > >It probably can't be done as long as Microsoft doesn't provide a >"pseudo-console" interface that would allow a third-party program to >fully take over the role of a console window. In the meantime, the >best that can be done is the lipstick-on-a-pig approach taken by >http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/, which uses Win32 interfaces >for accessing a console's screen contents and paints its own version of >that.
It can be done using the same technique as Console2: http://console.sourceforge.net So there is some justification in invoking the "too lazy" clause. I've started down the path of implementing ptys using console functions a couple of times and have always turned back due to the amount of work it would end up taking. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/