Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:01:15 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey To: Neil Zanella Cc: Thomas Dickey , Cygwin Mailing List , ncurses Subject: Re: question about cygwin terminal type Message-ID: <20001030050115.C354@home.his.com> Reply-To: dickey@herndon4.his.com References: <20001029155045.E235@home.his.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nzanella@cs.mun.ca on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:10:36AM -0330 On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:10:36AM -0330, Neil Zanella wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > That's probably incorrect (cygwin's terminal emulator differs in several > > features that are normally in "ansi"), and is likely done to make it simple to > > setup on the remote host. Just to satisfy my own curiousity I'll retest cygwin > > against "ansi" and see if I missed anything when making that terminfo entry. > > Thanks. Too bad I can't make that terminal a little bit wider. That's > probably a limitation in Windows' shell client and I bet you they > did it on purpose. With Win2K you can maximize it vertically but you > still can't maximize the window horizontally. ;-) > > SIGWINCH isn't related to the $TERM value (it's whether or not your > > host supports the negotiations about window size) > > Does Win2K support SIGWINCH? I'm not sure (I'm mostly - in that line - using NT4, though we've a couple W2K machines in the lab). I don't see why not (on NT, the vendor's telnet doesn't do it, but other applications such as Tera Term Pro do). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com