If anyone needs me to put money where my mouth is, I offer $100 via PayPal if someone in charge wants financial coercion to avoid putting in the X/graphical/ncurses crap for console applications. I'm dead serious.
I'll see your bet, and raise you $150.
Wow, so you're saying that you add $50 to my offer? If that's so -- nice. As it is, things work for me now, but just in case someone wanted to break it (it seems not!), I'd be paying to stop the breakage from getting into a release. Whitemailing of sorts ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-crime#Anti-crime
The requirements are: 1) text mode win32 apps should not invoke curses unless they start using cursor motion
Second that.
2) text mode win32 apps should not use user unless they dynamically load user32.dll
Yep.
3) whatever solution is picked, it should be similar to the one used on Windows NT/2000/XP
No clue here.
4) wine should be able to run a windows telnet server that invokes cmd to parse commands without tripping over itself.
Yes. Kuba