> 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.
It probably can't be done as long as Microsoft doesn't provide a "pseudo-console" interface that would allow a third-party program to fully take over the role of a console window. In the meantime, the best that can be done is the lipstick-on-a-pig approach taken by http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/, which uses Win32 interfaces for accessing a console's screen contents and paints its own version of that. Andy ps: Actually, would it be possible to invoke a process with all the Win32 console functions overwritten by custom ones? (That would of course require an awful lot of work ...) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
