The console window.

The console window.

[Jens Yllman]

 Hello,

 Haven't anyboy thought about making a console window for cygwin/bash.
To be used instead of the cmd.exe in WinNT. The WinNT console is not
very good since it's not very easy to copy text and other things. I
don't know how the console works in Win2000. Maybe that is better.

 Just a thought. I hope nobody kills me if this have been discussed
before. I did not search the archive. But I guess this need to be quite
closely developed with bash.

 It is not that urgent anymore since you can setup so you can telnet
into the system using som telnet program that works alot better then
telnet under WinNT or the WinNT console.

 Just some thoughts from me. I don't mind helping with the development.

 Jens Yllman
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Re: The console window.

[Charles Wilson]

Most folks use rxvt or xterm; the 'normal' versions of those utilities
require an Xserver such as EXceed, XWin32, or Suhaib & Co's
*EXERIMENTAL* port of XFree86 4.0.  However, there is a native port of
rxvt available at http://www.io.com/~bub/rxvt.html that doesn't require
an XServer.

--Chuck


Jens Yllman wrote:
> 
>  Hello,
> 
>  Haven't anyboy thought about making a console window for cygwin/bash.
> To be used instead of the cmd.exe in WinNT. The WinNT console is not
> very good since it's not very easy to copy text and other things. I
> don't know how the console works in Win2000. Maybe that is better.
> 
>  Just a thought. I hope nobody kills me if this have been discussed
> before. I did not search the archive. But I guess this need to be quite
> closely developed with bash.
> 
>  It is not that urgent anymore since you can setup so you can telnet
> into the system using som telnet program that works alot better then
> telnet under WinNT or the WinNT console.
> 
>  Just some thoughts from me. I don't mind helping with the development.
> 
>  Jens Yllman
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Uniweb AB                            Phone:  +46 8 626 42 00
> P O Box 745                          FAX:    +46 8 626 42 01
> S-191 27  SOLLENTUNA
> SWEDEN                               http://www.uniweb.se/
> 
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Re: The console window.

[Joerg Schaible]

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Hi Jens,

>Haven't anyboy thought about making a console window for cygwin/bash.
>To be used instead of the cmd.exe in WinNT. The WinNT console is not
>very good since it's not very easy to copy text and other things.

your request seems somehow obsolete - most (all ?) of the Cygwin utilities are console *applications* anyway. Nobody stops you from calling bash.exe directly without the usage of any cmd.exe/command.com. Bash works just like any another command processor reading commands from the standard input, although it is much more powerful than cmd.exe or command.com. The console *window* itself is a service of the OS. Any changes/replacement of it is definately not within the focus of Cygwin.

Jörg




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