Win xp has only a few advantages over dos at the command line.  The

 http://www.jpsoft.com

web site has info about a series of shell replacements for those offered in
the ms os platforms.  This started in dos with the 4dos shell replacement
for the command.com shell by adding hundreds of powerful commands and other
features impossible in the ms product shell.  As win became the more used
platform, shells for each of them as they were introduced were offered.
There is one for any win version and those for os2 and dos are now free.
Anyone who is serious about doing command line work and/or scripting in
batch files should give serious consideration to this approach.  It allows
you to escape the pretty gui shell ms thinks you should have with it's
built in limitations and make your machine act as you want it to when you
want it to do far outside what the limitations of the menu and icon
combinations selected by ms allow.

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