These two things combine to make it easier to do what's been a dream of mine for a long time: slap a shell-like text interface on top of ANY program while it's running in real time.

The benefits are obvious to anyone who's played around with the console in a high-end switch, or who's played with netsh.

Extra console functionality

• changing text color: one, two
• other useful C console functions:
  • SetConsoleTitle
  • SetCurrentConsoleFontEx
  • SetConsoleCursorPosition
  • SetConsoleWindowInfo + GetLargestConsoleWindowSize
  • ScrollConsoleScreenBuffer
  • mouse input
  • clearing the screen
  • high-level console I/O

See also

• CommandPrompt