Microsoft's console has traditionally been limited to 16 colors. Some time ago they decided to support a wider range of features that make it work more like xterm on Linux. It also gives you 24 bit color and multiple console tabs on the same window.
You can get it for free from the Microsoft store. I believe it requires at least windows 10: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701?rtc=1#activetab=pivot:overviewtab On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 2:30 PM 'Michael Day' via Programming < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. > > Your "readme" file says: > * Note:*on windows, you need the stock|jconsole.exe|that comes with > J,/and/you need to run it through the"new" Windows terminal > <https://github.com/microsoft/terminal>. > > The ' "new" Windows terminal ' is indeed news to me. I realise you > provide a link to " https://github.com/microsoft/terminal ", > but what does that do, how do we use it, is there a downside? - is all > this common knowledge? > > Cheers, > > Mike > > On 26/07/2021 16:38, Michal Wallace wrote: > > The initial version of the 'j-kvm' terminal driver is here: > > > > https://github.com/tangentstorm/j-kvm > > > > It provides keyboard, video, and mouse support for console mode > > applications on windows and linux, (and maybe OSX, if anyone with a mac > > cares to test it...<g>) > > > > It kind of does what ncurses does (let you make interactive console > > applications), > > but the API is closer to the old "turbo vision" style from turbo pascal. > > > > There is also a submodule for working with video buffers as arrays and > then > > rendering them with terminal escape codes, as well as a little framework > > for mapping each keypress to its own verb in an event loop. > > > > It's still kind of a work in progress, so suggestions/patches/bug reports > > are very welcome. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
