On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:56:16PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >James Calfee <jcal...@xxx.xxx> wrote on 04/20/2009 02:02:33 PM: > >> Hi Andrew. I have change request for screen.exe under cygwin. I did >> not get any response from the cygwin mailing list. I guess the request >> is a bit too specific. Do you know where I might direct the request? >> >> In case your wondering, we are running a server program that has a DOS >> interface. It does not work under screen. This program is very similar >> to the DOS edit program which also does NOT work under screen. So, my >> question would be, what is required to fix screen so it will work with >> the DOS edit program? >> >> Thanks for your help, >> Jimmy > >Jimmy, I saw the thread on the cygwin list. I didn't answer there because I >didn't have anything to add. In fact, you did get a response there from Matt >Wozniski, who I thought covered it as well as I could: > >> In general, non-cygwin programs can't be run reliably inside of an >> application that uses cygwin PTYs, including xterm, rxvt, and screen. > >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.
...and if one was possible why wouldn't the techniques that it incorporates be part of cygwin? 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/
