Welcome to Microsoft !!!

[James Knott]

Ian Petersen wrote:
> On 4/23/07, Chris Cunnington <cunnington-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 1. What do Microsofties use instead of Fetch for uploading files for a
>> website to a server (ftp client)?
>>
>> 2. Where's my Terminal? I need to find the application in Vista/XP 
>> that will
>> present me with a command line I can summon vi from. Where is that?
>
> You may want to install Cygwin if you plan to use a Windows machine
> like a Unix machine.  I think the Windows way to run FTP or vi is
> through the start menu.
>
> Barring either Cygwin or use of the start menu, the "terminal" in XP
> can be reached by using the Run menu item within the start menu to
> execute cmd.exe.  I haven't used the Vista command shell, so it might
> be better, but if you're used to Bash, you'll find cmd.exe to be
> terrible, I think.
>
> Ian
>
It's terrible, even without comparison to bash.  It's worse than the 
command line in earlier versions of Windows or even good(?) ol' DOSKEY


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