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mackenga · Jun 10th, 2007, 5:49 AM

Sadly the Windows command-line shell is a bit restrictive. Hailing from the days of non-multitasking OSes it doesn't spawn background processes conveniently like Unix shells do. Even its I/O redirection is still pretty poor. I pity people stuck developing and testing on Win32 - it's such a weird, archaic system.

Jun 10th, 2007, 5:49 AM	#4
mackenga Professional Programmer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 317 Rep Power: 4	Sadly the Windows command-line shell is a bit restrictive. Hailing from the days of non-multitasking OSes it doesn't spawn background processes conveniently like Unix shells do. Even its I/O redirection is still pretty poor. I pity people stuck developing and testing on Win32 - it's such a weird, archaic system. __________________ "I'm not a genius. Why do I have to suffer?"