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RE: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't


> 
> > screen
> > 
> > In some cases we have packages which offer 
> similar-but-not-identical behavior
> > but in some cases (ping, screen) we don't have anything 
> close, AFAIK.
> 
> I've been running screen on cygwin for years - originally using
> http://dellelce.com/code/screen/ - though it wasn't long 
> before being ^A^Z
> trigger happy drove me nuts, and I made my own patch that 
> disabled the suspend
> and detatch (which is broken under cygwin) keystrokes.  
> 
>     http://www.alphalink.com.au/~ord/home/cygwin.html
> 
> I'm happy for someone to run with my patch and add it to the 
> cygwin distro. If
> not I could possibly handle the package, depending how time 
> consuming it'd be.
> 

My guess is that this should start with:

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

And then add patches as necessary to get this to work
on Cygwin.

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