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RE: Bash & cygwin console control
- To: 'Matt Minnis' <mminnis at prefres dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: Bash & cygwin console control
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:40:31 -0500
> From: Matt Minnis [mailto:mminnis@prefres.com]
> Is there a way to make the top four lines on the console be
> in a "virtual
> window" so that the scrolling text goes "underneath" the top 4 lines?
> Can this be done with ANSI terminal controls or does this
> need to be done
> by cygwin?
<ESC>[{start};{end}r is the escape sequence.
{start} and {end} are line numbers. I'm not sure who supports it.
>
> I think I remember doing something like this a long time ago,
> when it was
> console or CGA graphics only.
The above works on DEC VT series terminals. I haven't tried
anything like this lately.
Normally one uses a seperate window for static info.
> Of course I can't find my code, and ANSI is on the net in too
> many places to get a good search find for this.
You give up too easy. Search on "ANSI" + "terminal" + "control".
You should get mostly useful hits.
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