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RE: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't
- From: "Harig, Mark" <maharig at idirect dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:25:39 -0500
- Subject: 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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