Window that does not scroll

[Randall R Schulz]

Dantin,

If you're using Windows NT, 2000 or XP Professional, the "Properties" 
dialog for a character subsystem window such as that used by default for a 
Cygwin shell contains a tab ("Layout") that sets the size of the content 
area and of the visible area.

If you're not using one of these versions of Windows: a) You should be; b) 
There is an extension of some sort that provides smarter character 
subsystem windows than those ordinarily supported on windows '98 or Me. I 
know nothing about it except that it exists. Someone else here can tell you 
if they notice this or if you ask specifically about it.

By the way, I'm not sure which category XP Home Edition fits into.


If you use RXVT, then the invocation options control scrollback. The "-sl" 
option controls how many lines are in the scrollback buffer.


I recommend setting up a Windows shortcut that invokes your preferred style 
of window (Windows character subsystem--a.k.a. "consol"-- or RXVT) with 
options configured as you like them (there are many more beside window 
geometry and scrollback capacity).

Good luck.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 20:22 2002-07-06, Dantin wrote:
>     Hey folks here is my second attempt at the mailing list. Could someone
>be so kind as to help me out? Here's what I have and whats not happening. I
>have downloaded the most recent cygwin with the basic files and all the
>devolpement packages. The problem that I'm seeing is that when the
>information fills the window it doesn't give me the option to scroll up or
>down like what I was used to in the prior versions. So for example if I grep
>MAX_LEVEL in my mud program all the information that fills the screen goes
>up and disappears forever. I guess if I was really fast I could press pause
>but I'm not. Does anyone have a solution for me? I'm sure its simple but its
>not in the documentation. Thanks in advance...
>
>                            Dantin


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