Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/07/03/10:45:46
Rich Simoes <rms_list2 AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
: The BASH port does not work as I had hoped when it comes to a terminal
: window. On other platforms you get a terminal window. Might be an xterm
: or one that's provided with someone's CDE. A terminal window has characteristics
: that a user can customize such as size, color, memory, etc. When a terminal window
: is open, it usually runs a shell application. The shell uses much of the characteristic
: of the terminal window. Afterall, the shell is just an application running in the terminal
: window. On the PeeCee we have cmd.exe. Would this be analogous to a terminal
: window on UNIX? If so, is it possible to run a UNIX like shell such as BASH or
: anything else on the PeeCee window and have it use the characteristics of that window.
: I did some searching in the archives and what I found was that the current implementation
: of BASH on DJGPP kind of runs like a terminal and shell combined into one, but
: doesn't give me any control over the window. I see that everyone manages using a
That's because DJGPP programs are DOZE programs and that window you
get to run bash in is the window WINDOZE provides for DOZE programs.
If you really need that terminal window behaviour you must go
elsewhere. Cygwin and MinGW32 is real WINDOZE programs so they ought
to have some better terminal behaviour (if WINDOZE is able to provide
this and as Microsnoft is trying to remove CLI I'm not so sure about
that).
Otherwise I suggest you scrap WINDOZE and go with Linux. That'll be
very Unix-like.
Right,
MartinS
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