From: cgf@cygnus.com (ChristopherFaylor) Subject: Re: Terminal window scroll bars? 18 Sep 1998 18:45:12 GMT Message-ID: <6tu9no$q9s$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <199809171838.OAA02433.cygnus.gnu-win32@scotch.mae.cornell.edu> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <199809171838.OAA02433.cygnus.gnu-win32@scotch.mae.cornell.edu>, Daniel Karipides wrote: > >>>My favorite telnet clients all have scroll bars that allow you to look back >>>more than 24 lines. Can bash do the same? >> >>It can on Windows NT's cmd.exe, but not with Windows 9.x's command.com ! >> >>On NT you can set it through the system menue properites of your cmdwindow. > >However, if you enable this, then less no longer works. (When you leave less >you are at the top of your "buffer" and must hit return many times to >scroll through it.) Or at least, this is what happens to me. I guess it depends on the less you're using. I have a Win32 native version and a cygwin version and both work correctly. There was a problem in B18 with this, but it was fixed (by me) for B19. -- cgf@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/