diff --git a/src/testdir/test_terminal.vim b/src/testdir/test_terminal.vim
index c7ff89e..2ee25bf 100644
--- a/src/testdir/test_terminal.vim
+++ b/src/testdir/test_terminal.vim
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
   call term_wait(buf)
   let g:buf = buf
   " On MS-Windows we first get a startup message of two lines, wait for the
-  " "cls" to happen, after that we have one line.
-  call WaitFor('len(term_scrape(g:buf, 1)) == 1')
+  " "cls" to happen, after that we have one line with three characters.
+  call WaitFor('len(term_scrape(g:buf, 1)) == 3')
   call Check_123(buf)
 
   " Must still work after the job ended.