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Re: DOS programs under "screen"
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:56:16PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>James Calfee <jcalfee@xxx.xxx> wrote on 04/20/2009 02:02:33 PM:
>
>> Hi Andrew. I have change request for screen.exe under cygwin. I did
>> not get any response from the cygwin mailing list. I guess the request
>> is a bit too specific. Do you know where I might direct the request?
>>
>> In case your wondering, we are running a server program that has a DOS
>> interface. It does not work under screen. This program is very similar
>> to the DOS edit program which also does NOT work under screen. So, my
>> question would be, what is required to fix screen so it will work with
>> the DOS edit program?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Jimmy
>
>Jimmy, I saw the thread on the cygwin list. I didn't answer there because I
>didn't have anything to add. In fact, you did get a response there from Matt
>Wozniski, who I thought covered it as well as I could:
>
>> In general, non-cygwin programs can't be run reliably inside of an
>> application that uses cygwin PTYs, including xterm, rxvt, and screen.
>
>Maybe someone knows a solution to this, but I don't. Although I maintain screen
>for Cygwin, I know almost nothing of the details of how terminals work. I could
>imagine some kind of a DOS-to-Unix terminal wrapper program, but I've never seen
>one and have no idea how it would work.
...and if one was possible why wouldn't the techniques that it incorporates be
part of cygwin?
cgf
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