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RE: Terminal window scroll bars?
- To: "Calm, Fred" <Fred dot Calm at compaq dot com>
- Subject: RE: Terminal window scroll bars?
- From: Charles G Waldman <cgw at pgt dot com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 10:48:58 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: "'Scandora, Anthony E., Jr.'" <scandora at cmt dot anl dot gov>, "'gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com'" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- References: <DBCEC26B129DD1119E4D00805FA749F7189324@excnor-01.microcom.com>
Calm, Fred writes:
> > My favorite telnet clients all have scroll bars that allow you to look
> > back
> > more than 24 lines. Can bash do the same?
> >
> Assuming you're running bash in a DOS command window, check out the
> properties dialog for the Command Prompt shortcut in the Start menu,
> especially the layout pane. You can set both window size and size of the
> scroll-back buffer.
If you're running WinNT. On Win95 you can't set the window properties
on "DOS" windows.
Assuming you have an X Server available, (I use Hummingbird) and are
willing to do some setup work, you can run an XTerm, which is
better-behaved than the #*&^%* "DOS window".
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