> From: David Fritz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> How often do people change the size of the screen buffer
> while a command
> is running?
Rarely I think, for example when you notice a huge file is being downloaded
slowly and you enlarge the window in order to have a better granularity on
the
> From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Yes. Specifically, Unix's SIGWINCH simply sets a flag that means
> "window size might have changed, please check it out". That is
> because checking window size on each refresh would perform an
> unnecessary ioctl.
>
> One thing we could do fo
[ This discussion is about a patch that determines the screen width on
Windows console. ]
Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Note: for a complete look-and-feel similar to the unix version we
> still need a detection when the size changes (on unix this is done
> with received_sigwinch in
Works fine for me on Winnt 4.0 sp6a (cmd windows with column sizes != 80 now
use the whole line for the progress bar), compiled with MSVC.
A binary with that patch is available from
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
In order to test just open a command window with a buffer column size !=80,
the p
