whoa, how long has that been there?!

Yesterday at work I made the most exciting happy discovery of my week. Maybe longer. Maybe since the 7th day of the Omer. And this may sound dumb but here it was:
The DOS Prompt on Win XP Pro will accept unix-type shell commands!
I am happy enough about that that I don't care if non-geeks don't think it's worth getting excited over. And more to the point, I am happy enough that I don't care if "real geeks" think I should identify it as bash/csh/etc commands. I have ls with all its options, and grep, and man, and more....

(It might not be all Win XP computers, maybe they installed something special on that one. I can find out today!)