Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)

Re:Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty) by theclaw on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @08:22PM (#17770907)

I'm unclear as to whether I'll be able to pipe binary data between a classic console application and a ConPTY application due to the VT translation and rendering components in ConHost.

So, for example if I was to pipe into 7z.exe, a classic console app, using something like "type mybinaryfile.bin | 7z.exe a -si c:\temp\myarchive.7z" from a ConPTY console, would the VT translation affect the piped stream?

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Re:Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty) by zadjii on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @08:57PM (#17771067)

Nope! We're only rendering the effect of any attached processes to the VT on the conpty side of things. On the client side (where cmd, type, 7z.exe are all running), they're going to keep working just the same as they always have. They're all running on the "slave" side of conpty, while the emitted VT is coming from the "master" side of the conpty.

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