[Vm-dev] [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] Add accurate check for console stdio + add associated primitive (#254)

[Alistair Grant]

Actually, the primitive needs to be an enumerated value indicating one of:

- no console (windows only)
- console / terminal
- pipe
- file

Cheers,
Alistair
(on phone)

On Tue., 1 May 2018, 07:56 Alistair Grant, <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eliot & Vincent,
>
> On 27 April 2018 at 09:16, akgrant43 <notifications at github.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > But I don't get it. IIRC, it used to be the case that
> ReadConsole/WriteConsole worked in both.
> >
> > I'd still like to be proved wrong...
>
>
> This thread has been quiet for a few days, so I guess my wishes aren't
> met and there isn't a way to have a program work in both Windows
> Consoles and cygwin terminals.
>
> One of the articles forwarded by Ben suggested the workaround is to have
> a .com version of the program, which does all the work if the command
> line arguments only require console i/o.  If a gui is required, it
> relaunches the .exe version which then opens the windows.  We could
> extend that to also check for cygwin and relaunch a cygwin exe.
> However I think that is effectively adding another platform to support,
> which is more effort than I want to put in.
>
> Assuming all of the above, I think we might as well (reluctantly) rip
> out the code that tests for cygwin terminals and just leave Vincent's
> primitives in.  This will at least allow the image to properly determine
> whether it can write to the console or if it should create files
> instead.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Alistair
>
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