> >The heart of the new system is an intelligent command
> >line interpreter that is vastly superior to CMD.
>
> Is this something that already exists or something that you are writing?
I
> spend most of my life at the command line - anything that makes it
easier
> is something I'd like to learn about, if possible.

It is something that I am creating and is partially working.  Frankly, CMD
sucks.  There are shells available that originated on old unix systems,
but use cryptic syntax and of course aren't built on my file system
abstraction layer.  This layer gives me consistant path naming and other
features accross platforms and some interoperability between platforms.
For example, it always provides symbolic links whether the underlying
system has them or not (see the SLINK command).  I plan on adding source
code directory structure awareness to the file system layer, then using
that to write intelligent build scripts using the shell.  Now if other
things didn't keep getting in the way...


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