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No--cmd.exe is very tightly tied to the underlying command line infrastructure. This is a large part of why alternatives such as Console are so bad--they can only access the command interpreter and infrastructure as a stream, which rules our most character-mode applications. (Cygwin/rxvt get around this by not using the Windows infrastructure at all; curses can be built for Windows and works in cmd.exe, but character-mode code written for cmd.exe will break hard in rxvt.)

Sadly, for most definitions, cmd.exe is the console and the interpreter.



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