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		Tarean on Nov 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell ... Currently powershell just shells out to cmd.exe to run normal command line apps And handle text streams anyway. How would that work?

zokier on Nov 18, 2016 [–]

My guess is that MS will keep old cmd in place in system32, and do some tricks with search paths to divert "unqualified" cmd to PS.

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