23 May 16 21:15, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> We almost had something going there.  We still could and I believe
 MK>> Ben has a vested interest in that particular echo so it makes sense
 MK>> that we should rope him into whatever happens there ... even if it
 MK>> does include - please forgive me in advance - Windows users.
 MK>> :::shudder:::

 TL> Wash your mouth (and fingers!) out with soap! :D  But seriously, there's
 TL> compatible scripting environments available - Cygwin, etc, so there's no
 TL> reason we can't include Windows users, or those Windows users wanting to
 TL> convert their .BAT files to shell scripts. :)

Indeed. Or OS X users using bash (or tcsh).

Also, Microsoft has recently introduced a 64-bit Linux binary-compatible layer
to the recent Insider versions of Windows 10. It uses Ubuntu 14.04 for the base
system, with bash as the default shell.

I suspect it will be released mainstream when included with the Windows 10
Anniversary Update, expected a few months from now.

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