Re: Suitable terminal for Windows

Am Dienstag, 24. April 2018, 17:50:38 CEST schrieb Carsten Strotmann:
> 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.

The snapshot distributions come with mintty.exe as terminal. Even Microsoft 
understood that their own terminal is crap, and ships mintty with their WSL 
;-).

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