Spawning a console in Windows (similar to forkpty on linux)

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 10/05/2015 12:13 a.m., wobbles wrote:
> This isn't specifically a D question, but seeing as it's for a D library
> I figure it can go here :)
>
> On Windows, I want to be able to spawn a console and then interact with
> its stdin/out asynchronously, similar to how forkpty [1] works on linux.
>
> I'm improving my dexpect library [2] to work with windows machines and
> this bit has me stumped. There doesnt seem to be much info about it that
> I can find (though my google-fu mightn't be good enough!!)
>
> I'm sure theres someone here who knows something?
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] http://linux.die.net/man/3/forkpty
> [2] https://github.com/grogancolin/dexpect

Did you try creating a new process which is cmd?
Because std.process should be able to handle the IO part.