Thanks so much for the response. It looks like the console's text field is being cut off by the windows task bar. It would be a good idea to have it do fullscreen and/or resizing.
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A text field is indeed visible when the executable first boots. This time I tried typing a longer string and could see the text after a few keystrokes -- as I said, though, the leftmost part of the window is cut off and attempting to move it will take the text box out of view. Also, I can't resize the window or switch to fullscreen (tried "F", "F4" and "F11"). Any commands I should try? It will probably accept them even if the input line is not visible.