Console 2.00 is a replacement console for win32. The console is the window in which cmd.exe (and, usually, MSYS bash.exe) are executed. The normal Windows console has some drawbacks which Console 2.00 attempts to remedy: better font selection, larger scrollback buffers, tabbed windows, resizable, easier cut-n-paste behavior, etc. Unfortunately, Console 2.00 can not be compiled using free (as in speech) tools; although Console 2.00 itself is GPL, it requires certain proprietary compilers to build. Since all tools distributed by the MinGW/MSYS project are compiled using free tools also provided by that project, MinGW/MSYS doesn't supply a binary version of Console 2.00 directly. Instead, this package contains a script that can be executed to download the Console 2.00 binary package from the Console 2.00 developer's site, install it, and configure it as appropriate for use with MinGW and MSYS.