question about cygwin terminal type

Neil Zanella nzanella@cs.mun.ca
Mon Oct 30 00:40:00 GMT 2000


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?

Thanks,

Neil


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