[skissane]

> CMD badly needed replacing

CMD is nasty but there are lots of little ways in which it could have been improved. For example, provide an option to disable that useless "Terminate batch job (Y/N)?" prompt.

I wish Microsoft would open-source CMD.EXE. I dislike how slow PowerShell is (especially its startup). Maybe nobody at Microsoft cares about CMD.EXE enough to fix those long-standing little annoyances like the above, but if it was open-source other people out there would.

Also, I wonder why nobody ever seemed to have thought of integrating CSCRIPT into CMD, so that you could have seamlessly mixed VBScript (or other WSH languages) into batch files.