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> Huh? Okay - think Cygwin, except:

No GCC or compilers, which I would think is one of the biggest reasons most people use Cygwin? Cygwin isn't just shell commands, and surprisingly PowerShell doesn't suck as much it features some unixy commands. As well as others have mentioned Clink makes cmd.exe suck even less.

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I only use cygwin to SSH into my irssi-box and that only because I have more control over how to looks than normal "cmd"

If you have something customizable, but not cygwin I'm all ears

Just for SSH? I use and love Bitvise on Windows, but I have no idea how customizable it is.

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