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newdep
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Post by newdep »

I hate the windows 16Bit cmd.exe, this thing is unusable.. ;-)

There is an alternative though... a tool that creates a pipe IO
to the real cmd.exe but it is just a new console ..with resize
colors etc..etc..

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
(download the beta 2)

You can reconfigure any application to run in it.. So is newlisp!)

So you have a better console under windows..
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Post by Fanda »

Thumbs up! I like it too! ;-)

Fanda

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Post by m35 »

Neat, even can be semi-transparent :D
Do you know if it can do unicode? I've never seen any console programs for windows before, let alone any that can use unicode in the command line.

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Post by ale870 »

Beautiful!
Great idea making just a "front-end" and not another shell!
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Post by alex »

It may be interesting variant : http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/wiki/ConEmu
With support "xterm 256 color mode" :-)
Your opinion?

newdep
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Post by newdep »

Ah yes ik know that one.. its a plugin for the far commander (russian version of midmight commander ;-)
At the time it just did not do what i wanted iy to do..but probably its enhanced meanwhile..

I jumped to an older console program, already used with OS2 for years, Take Command / TCC from JPsoft. The TCC is free the TCMD is commericial and it has hunderds of Batch enhancements etc...
(which is actualy the only console replacement i found that was working correctly.. there is another cmd
replacement for windows which is 32 bits and was created by a dutch/belgium guy..but not supported anymore, but its free and fast... sorry forgot the name...)

The other option im using under windows is running a local free sshd and connect with putty / xshell to my local machine ;-)
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Post by HPW »

Nice find! TakeCommand seems very powerfull.
Hans-Peter

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