VFXFORTH -console

Question

Hi Stephen, Gerald,

Windows 11 Pro.  Windows Terminal Version: 1.20.11781.0 is the default console.  I open PowerShell in Windows Terminal and enter:

VFXFORTH -console

the result is a new GUI console window running VFX Forth.  What I would like to achieve is have VFX Forth run in Windows Terminal console itself (no new GUI window).  How could that be done?

The purpose is:

1) Use the ANSI ESC codes which Windows Terminal supports to show embedded telemetry

2) Open a Windows Terminal on a remote machine with SSH, run VFX Forth in that terminal and interact with it remotely through the SSH client

Answer 1

See the manual (remember those). Chapter 27, Building Standalone Programs. Section 27.5, Binary SAVE words. The word you want is SAVECONSOLE.

Comments

Thank you Stephen.  I tried it and it works.  Somehow I would never have thought I needed to build a standalone program, but this is the way it works and I'll think it over.

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SAVECONSOLE is just undoing all the GUI stuff needed like the message pumps. The primary VFX kernel (vfxkern.exe) is also a console app but has only a minimal set of tools.