Hey Ben!   
      
    BR> I do have a DOS version of bash!   
      
   16 or 32 bit?  How about perl?  I did hear a rumour of a DOS based   
   perl once upon a time.  I've been playing around with mixed bash/perl   
   scripting recently for FTN compliant functionality specifically   
   to encorporate perl's pack function to pack local text messages to   
   FTN compliant outbound pkt's.  This reply will soon be one of those   
   but is pure text as I type it.  Also tried acsii2binary which more   
   or less does the same thing as perl's pack and rates higher on the   
   minimalization scale than perl.  A tad slower though.   
      
   After I replied I found a link - http://win-bash.wiki.sourceforge.net/   
   - that sounds interesting.  They claim there was a nt_bash at one   
   time but apparently it got abandoned.   
      
    BR> I created the echo to have a place like Batpower   
      
   Ah!  Where have you been hiding?   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
   --- GNU bash, version 4.2.10(2)-release (x86_64-atom-linux-gnu)   
    * Origin: Pointy Stick Society (1:261/38.9)