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Does that remove full binary compatibility for those running on older OS from Microsoft with an older cmd.exe?



Cosmopolitan supports Windows 7. The WinMain() polyfill is programmed to gracefully fall back if ANSI isn't available. So the binary still loads fine. You just need to run it in something like MinTTY instead if your TUI program is run on an old version of Windows.




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