Mike, I nosed around after reading the posts herein. Have you heard of monad, the new Windows Command Shell in beta?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2ac59b30-5a44-4782-b0b7-79fe2efd1280&DisplayLang=en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSH_(shell) Or a better article: http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars Might be promising, esp if it could be downloaded and used with xp. </rpd> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
