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Re: screen


> Try the below patches.  They make a workable screen on my system.
> 
> I even get a screen that I can attach and detach if I comment out
> the '#define NAMEDPIPE 1' in config.h before building.

OK, I'll look at these.  This is a smaller set than the one I was looking for 
that Lapo found, which allow screen to build successfully but seem to produce 
a buggy screen, including some detach/attach problems.

> This is necessary because, unfortunately, cygwin's implementation of
> fifos is not yet complete although screen thinks it is.  So the
> semi-working fifo seems to confuse detach/attach.
> 
> I'm not sure how you'd proceduralize the building of screen such that
> configure would avoid using fifos.  I guess the only way to do it is
> to patch the configure script to avoid using fifos under cygwin.  Or
> always edit config.h after configure...

No problem, either of those or one or two other ways would work.

Thanks,
Andrew.


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