diff --git a/bin-for-dist/test_install.py b/bin-for-dist/test_install.py
index 2a3d9f1e7..b18bdc0d5 100644
--- a/bin-for-dist/test_install.py
+++ b/bin-for-dist/test_install.py
@@ -66,7 +66,10 @@ class VirtualEnv(object):
         return "<VirtualEnv at %r>" %(self.path)
 
     def _cmd(self, name):
-        return os.path.join(self.path, 'bin', name)
+        if sys.platform == "win32":
+            return os.path.join(self.path, 'Scripts', name)
+        else:
+            return os.path.join(self.path, 'bin', name)
 
     def ensure(self):
         if not os.path.exists(self._cmd('python')):
diff --git a/py/impl/process/cmdexec.py b/py/impl/process/cmdexec.py
index aa2031f10..5720593e0 100644
--- a/py/impl/process/cmdexec.py
+++ b/py/impl/process/cmdexec.py
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ def cmdexec(cmd):
     the exception will provide an 'err' attribute containing
     the error-output from the command.
     """
-    process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+    process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, 
+            universal_newlines=True,
+            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
     out, err = process.communicate()
     out = py.builtin._totext(out, sys.getdefaultencoding())
     err = py.builtin._totext(err, sys.getdefaultencoding())
diff --git a/py/plugin/pytest_terminal.py b/py/plugin/pytest_terminal.py
index 0715cf087..3fde31b33 100644
--- a/py/plugin/pytest_terminal.py
+++ b/py/plugin/pytest_terminal.py
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ class TerminalReporter:
         self.summary_stats()
 
     def pytest_keyboard_interrupt(self, excinfo):
-        self._keyboardinterrupt_memo = excinfo.getrepr()
+        self._keyboardinterrupt_memo = excinfo.getrepr(funcargs=True)
 
     def _report_keyboardinterrupt(self):
         self.write_sep("!", "KEYBOARD INTERRUPT")
diff --git a/testing/process/test_cmdexec.py b/testing/process/test_cmdexec.py
index c8965ab00..79629d886 100644
--- a/testing/process/test_cmdexec.py
+++ b/testing/process/test_cmdexec.py
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ class Test_exec_cmd:
         out = cmdexec('echo hallo')
         assert out.strip() == 'hallo'
 
+    def test_simple_newline(self):
+        import sys
+        out = cmdexec(r"""%s -c "print ('hello')" """ % sys.executable)
+        assert out == 'hello\n'
+
     def test_simple_error(self):
         py.test.raises (cmdexec.Error, cmdexec, 'exit 1')