Welcome to Microsoft !!!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:50:19PM -0400, Ian Petersen wrote:
> 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.

cmd.exe is the same in vista.  No change.  The new shell was dropped
from vista a while ago.  Now they are talking longhorn might get the new
shell.

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