From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Terminals and consoles 3 Feb 1997 03:54:07 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC11CD.72DB3DF0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-To: gnu-win32 , "'Michiel van Wessem'" Encoding: 28 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Michiel van Wessem wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not up to date on the latest state of terminal emulation in gnu-win32 - > I haven't tried it out, but I'm a little concerned about the compatibility > of it. Here are some obnoxious questions.. > > How does it work? Is the entire terminfo (and termcap) stuff operational? Console handler in cygwin.dll emulates most of ANSI escape sequences. > Is it possible yet to port a telnet daemon and it would support all of the > terminfo terminals? You cannot port telnetd due to no pty support in cygwin.dll. > > How good is the terminal emulation for the standard console? What terminfo > entry is it - ansi? Does curses work, do function keys work? Yes. -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".