``Command Prompt (Chat Style)'' makes the black and somewhat scary ``Command Screen'' easier to use.

In movies and TV dramas where engineers and hackers play an active role, we often see strings of characters flowing across a pitch-black PC screen at an unbelievable speed. Some people may have the impression that it is somehow scary. In order to erase this image, engineer

It seems that some people say, ``Command Prompt is scary because there are so many characters on a black screen,'' so I created a chat-style command prompt. The source and binary are published below. https://t.co/2Vi5yoKYAI https://t.co/GwDL420Y8Y pic.twitter.com/jKnnxsAm2Z

— kenji (@kenjinote) October 15, 2020

GitHub - kenjinote/cmdchat: Command prompt (chat style)
https://github.com/kenjinote/cmdchat

The incident started with the following tweet by Shoichiro Takeuchi . For people who are unfamiliar with PCs who feel that the command prompt is scary because it has a lot of text on a black screen, we proposed a command prompt with a chat-like interface. Kenji realized this idea in ``Command Prompt (Chat-like).'' The source code and binaries are published on GitHub, and anyone can try it out. Access the GitHub page in your browser and click Release.

The latest version at the time of article creation is 1.0.0. Click 'cmdchat100_x64.zip' and download the software.

If you are using Firefox, a pop-up will appear, so click 'OK'.

Unzip the downloaded ZIP file with decompression software such as 7-Zip and run the EXE file that comes out...

A screen with a bright light blue background was displayed.

Let's enter the 'time' command to check the current time.

In this way, you can execute commands and check the execution results as if you were sending and receiving messages with a chat app.

All commands that can be used in a normal command prompt, such as the 'dir' command, can be used.

When you run the same 'dir' command at a normal command prompt, it looks like this. It's true that the chat style screen is more friendly.

I thought that if I set an alias for the command using the 'doskey' command, I would be able to perform a more chat-like operation, but unfortunately, at the time of writing this article, it seems that the doskey command cannot be used.

Problems and requests related to the command prompt (chat style) have been registered as issues on GitHub, so I'm looking forward to future version updates.

Thank you for all the retweets and comments! Problems and requests have been registered as an issue. I just finished the information processing test, so I'll deal with it.

— kenji (@kenjinote) October 18, 2020