From: cgw@pgt.com (Charles G Waldman) Subject: RE: Terminal window scroll bars? 20 Sep 1998 16:34:31 -0700 Message-ID: <13827.50266.615633.983014.cygnus.gnu-win32@sirius> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Calm, Fred" Cc: "'Scandora, Anthony E., Jr.'" , "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Calm, Fred writes: > > My favorite telnet clients all have scroll bars that allow you to look > > back > > more than 24 lines. Can bash do the same? > > > Assuming you're running bash in a DOS command window, check out the > properties dialog for the Command Prompt shortcut in the Start menu, > especially the layout pane. You can set both window size and size of the > scroll-back buffer. If you're running WinNT. On Win95 you can't set the window properties on "DOS" windows. Assuming you have an X Server available, (I use Hummingbird) and are willing to do some setup work, you can run an XTerm, which is better-behaved than the #*&^%* "DOS window". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".