Cygwin GNU screen

This page describes the results of my effort to port screen to Cygwin.

Please note that this is still very buggy. Don't expect it to work very well, especially if you want to detach and reattach to your session.

This version works only with pseudo-tty devices, not with Windows Console windows. In other words, if you remotely (or locally) connect via ssh or telnet or if you use PuTTYcyg, it works beautifully.

I didn't write any of this; I was only successful in applying other's patches to screen-4.0.2 in order to get it to build and run on Cygwin (1.5.18-1). The combined patch as well as a Cygwin install tarball are available.

TODO:

Fix screen's handling of the Windows Console
configure.in: correctly fix AC_CHECKING(fifos) test
configure.in: correctly fix AC_CHECKING(select return value) test

medgar at student dot gc dot maricopa dot edu