Console Input/Output at Console Application

[mossbruc]

Hello everyone,
I'm ripping my hair out and cannot figure it out. I apologize if this has already been answered, but I couldn't find an answer:

Problem: Freebasic 1.09 64 bit version running on Windows 10

A console application started from a CMD window that does not create another screen: How do I output to the CMD window?

I have tried the example from the Wiki:

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Dim a As String

Open Cons For Input As #1
Open Cons For Output As #2

Print #2,"Please write something and press ENTER"
Line Input #1,a
Print #2, "You wrote : ";a

Close
Sleep

Doesn't work when started from CMD window.

[Imortis]

With a console application there is no need to do anything fancy to write to the console.

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Dim a As String

Line Input  "Please write something and press ENTER"; a
Print "You wrote : ";a

Sleep

[Lothar Schirm]

Hi mosbruc,
the code from the example from the Wiki is used if you are running some stuff on an a grafics screen and you want to do something addional on the console. "Open Cons" can e.g. be used to display test messages on the console for debugging purposes if your program is running on a grafics screen or if you run a GUI application (using Windows API, FLTK or an other GUI library).

[mossbruc]

Hello,

thank you for the response, but this does not work!

Compiling this using FbEdit using the following compiler options:

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fbc -s console -t 64000

and then running the resulting executable within a CMD window in Windows 10 does not prodice any output.
What am I doing wrong here?

[mossbruc]

Hello everyone,

I figure it out. Somehow the wrong compiling options were selected (-s gui instead of -s console); total user error..

Cheers

Joerg

[caseih]

EDIT: I didn't see the message that you have it figured out.