Re: Suitable terminal for Windows

Hello Ethan,

Carsten Strotmann <carsten-BEUwUN0/[email protected]> writes:

> 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

Console 2 <https://github.com/cbucher/console> might also be a 
solution.

Best regards

Carsten