> Your problem with cmd.exe is rather specific. Perhaps I'm wrong, but
> from my understanding since Process.Start Method from
> System.Diagnostics .Net Namespace has been available for the decade,
> any sane developer would prefer creating simple C# or VB.NET program
> with free MS Tools to wrap the functionality.

You must be kidding. I consider myself a sane developer (Olin would 
disagree because on PICs I prefer HLL to assembly, but that aside), but 
I am often forced to do something in/on the dos-on-windows command line. 
I don't want to learn yet another language for that purpose. For bash or 
one of its relatives I can find plenty of very readable documentation, 
from the authors or maintainers, both introductory/overview and 
reference style. I have never found such for cmd.exe. Yes, I have read 
the helps quite a few times.

I might be biased, but I have good memories of VMS CLI. Very verbose 
commands, but easy to remember and natural to type. But they did do a 
very bad job on some details, for instance the input/output redirection.

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