On 17 Oct 2005, at 07:34, Russell McMahon wrote:
>> Bah.  Become enlightened, and get a unix BASH-like shell instead
>
> This seems like contradictory advice :-)

But it isn't - ergo you're missing out :)

> However, if there was such a shell available which ran under  
> Windows XP and was free and gave me more net utility than what I  
> have now I may well consider adopting it. But it wouild probably  
> have to come to me and ask :-).

Go get cygwin, learn bash, forget the barbarism of cmd.exe. This may  
not, of course, apply to you but many people who think the command  
line is a degenerate user interface are talking about cmd.exe (or  
worse command.com).

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

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