Posts Tagged ‘Software’

September 6th, 2011 by Jason Walton

If you’ve spent much time doing development work on Linux or Max OS X, and you suddenly find yourself stuck doing development work on a Windows machine, one of the things you’ll quickly learn to hate is the Windows command prompt. You can’t resize the command prompt window, and cut-and-paste is a bit of a pain. You can use Cygwin/X to get yourself a genuine xterm window, but Cygwin is a little heavy weight, and not all Windows console programs will work properly in Cygwin due to differences in the way POSIX handles stdout.

Enter Console 2; a slick Windows command prompt replacement. It’s lightweight, resizable, and with a little bit of configuration, you can make the copy-and-paste behave just like an xterm.

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