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I was reading an article in some dumb IT magazine they send me for free twice a month. And apparently Windows 2003 is going to have a console in it.. and I do not mean the normal console (CMD) with the 80 char limitation where you can run DOS command, this new console is going to operate and behave like XTerm in Linux.
Only there is on interesting Quirk. The entire system will operate on the .NET framework, so when you run an application and pipe it to another application like "cat somefile | grep -n some_text" it will not just pipe basic ASCII data as linus does... it will actually emit objects through the pipe.
You will be able to pipe into Excel documents and create full formatted documents as an example of its capability, you will still however be able to see the text on your screen if you wish your output to be the console.
I think this will be pretty cool, and certainly a feature that will make me like Windows that much more
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