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From: "Calm, Fred" <Fred DOT Calm AT COMPAQ DOT com>
To: "'Brimhall, GeoffreyX L'" <geoffreyx DOT l DOT brimhall AT intel DOT com>,
        cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: Good command shell to run cygwin under
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 11:08:24 -0500 
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At least under NT, a command window size is not that rigidly fixed. First,
the size of both the screen buffer and window can be changed in the Layout
tab of the Properties dialog. Second, the DOS command 'mode' can change the
size. 

When sizes are changed from the Properties dialog, a dialog pops up giving
you the choice of changing the current window only or all future windows
with the same title. When MODE sets the size, it sets both the buffer and
the window sizes. 

   c:\> mode /? 

displays usage, but there's an undocumented, convenient form of the command

   c:\> mode <columns>,<lines>

Of course, if the window is running a shell like bash, you can always do
something like

    $ cmd
    c:\> mode 120,53
    c:\> exit
    $ 

or

    $ cmd /c 'mode 120,53'
    $ 

These escapes can be put in shell startup files.

I don't know what it's like under 9x.

__
Fred


-----Original Message-----
From: Brimhall, GeoffreyX L [mailto:geoffreyx DOT l DOT brimhall AT intel DOT com]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 3:00 PM
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Good command shell to run cygwin under


Are there any good (and hopefully free) command shells out there to run
cygwin under ? 

The main feature I'd like is to have the size of the window be however many
lines I want rather than the fixed size that Win9x gives you. Also if it
allow scrolling back to older commands would be a big plus. This WinNT shell
gives both these features, bug the win9x is lacking.

Thanks for any info !

Geoff

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