I've been using DOS since 2.x and the best shell replacement for DOS/Windows out there by far is 4DOS (for W9x) and 4NT (for NT) by JP Software. It has very intelligent command line completion, pop up command and dir histories, an extended batch language that actually has some power to it (nothing like perl or *nix shell scripts, but not bad), allows commands to be redefined or aliased and also allows multiple commands to be run from one command line, *nix style.
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Check out my earlier post. 4NT allows redirection of stderr and stdout+stderr, includes a tee pipe and a y pipe and dozens of other things.
I've been using DOS since 2.x and the best shell replacement for DOS/Windows out there by far is 4DOS (for W9x) and 4NT (for NT) by JP Software. It has very intelligent command line completion, pop up command and dir histories, an extended batch language that actually has some power to it (nothing like perl or *nix shell scripts, but not bad), allows commands to be redefined or aliased and also allows multiple commands to be run from one command line, *nix style.
Actually with certain drive kits, IDE can be made to be hot swappable. Do a google search of hot swap and ide and check it out.