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Aug 2, 2018
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Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY)

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

In this, the fourth post in the Windows Command-Line series, we'll discuss the new Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY) infrastructure and API - why we built it, what it's for, how it works, how to use it, and more.

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Jul 20, 2018
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Windows Command-Line: Inside the Windows Console

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

Welcome to the third post in the Windows Command-Line series. In this post, we'll start to dig into the internals of the Windows Console and Command-Line, what it is, what it does ... and what it doesn't do!

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Jun 27, 2018
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Windows Command-Line: The Evolution of the Windows Command-Line

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

Welcome to the second post in this "Windows Command-Line" series. In this post we'll discuss some of the background & history behind the Windows Command-Line. Specifically, we’ll explore its humble origins in MS-DOS, to its modern-day incarnation supporting tools like PowerShell and Windows Subsystem for Linux.

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Jun 20, 2018
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Windows Command-Line: Backgrounder

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

This is the first of a series of posts in which we’ll explore all things command-line – from the origins of the command-line and the evolution of the terminal, to what we’re doing to overhaul and modernize the Windows Console & command-line in future Windows releases.

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Jun 14, 2018
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Improved per-directory case sensitivity support in WSL

Sven Groot
Sven Groot

With the Windows Subsystem for Linux, we’ve always allowed you to treat your files as case sensitive, just like Linux does. In the past, if you had files whose name differed only by case, these files could not be accessed by Windows, because Windows applications treat the file system as case insensitive. A while ago, we introduced per-directory ca...

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May 15, 2018
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Windows Subsystem for Linux //Build 2018 Recap

Tara Raj
Tara Raj

Last week, the WSL team attended Microsoft //Build 2018. We had a great time meeting many of you and answering questions at the command line booth. In case you missed it, you can watch out session, Set up a Windows Dev Environment that Feels Like $HOME, online on Channel9. In this post, we will summarize the NEW announcement we made during //Build....

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May 8, 2018
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Join us for a hot cup o Chocolatey!

Yosef Durr
Yosef Durr

Setting up a dev box should be easy and fast.  At BUILD 2018 we announced a collaboration with Chocolatey and Boxstarter.  The project founders discuss the collaboration in the following video. Improving Machine Setup Have you set up a new dev machine and found it was frustrating or time consuming?  It's important to have a repeatable, fast way...

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May 8, 2018
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Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad

Michel Lopez [MSFT]
Michel Lopez [MSFT]

For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF). This means that Notepad was unable to correctly display the contents of text files created in Unix, Linux and macOS. For example, here’s a screenshot of Notepad trying to display the contents of...

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Apr 13, 2018
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Tabbed Console starts here

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

[2018-06-29: Important Note: As announced in the release notes for Windows 10 Insider build 17704, Sets and Tabs will NOT ship in the next mainstream release of Windows (codenamed RS5). Please read the first bullet under the heading "General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC" for more details.]   [2018-04-16: Updated to better reflect "Sets...

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Apr 13, 2018
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Copy and Paste arrives for Linux/WSL Consoles

Rich Turner
Rich Turner

As of Windows 10 Insider build #17643, you can copy/paste text from/to Linux/WSL Consoles!!! We know that this is a feature MANY of you have been waiting for - our sincerest thanks for your patience & continued support while we untangled the Console's internals, allowing us to implement this feature. To ensure that we don't break any existing...

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