Re: Suitable terminal for Windows

Hi Ethan,

Ethan A. Gardener <[email protected]> writes:

> Under Windows, Gforth's default terminal window has text a bit 
> too small and too dim for my aging eyes. Under a MINGW terminal 
> it runs, but history doesn't work; up-arrow moves the 
> cursor. Does anyone have any sort of solution for Gforth to run 
> under Windows with a terminal window of adjustable font and 
> colors, please? Or even fixed 14pt font in high contrast would 
> do.

you can try 'mlterm' (<http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/>). I use 
'mlterm'
on MacOS, Linux and xBSD. There are Windows binaries on the 
webpage.

You can also use Putty as a terminal together with a local telnet
server:

<https://superuser.com/questions/270300/is-it-possible-to-use-putty-as-the-ui-for-the-windows-shell>

Greetings

Carsten