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The need for dirty little Windows hacks that can only be done in crude DOS batch scripts still crops up on a regular basis for system integrators, who sometimes have to ignore their moral compunctions and resort to FTP'ing between legacy systems. Here's one that vexes many hardened hackers: What is the simplest and cleanest way in Windows to send a file to an FTP server using a batch script?
If you still have an old version of Windows floating about from before the days that MS conceded that the Windows O/S should be built on the Linux O/S, and you want to do anything vaguely sophisticated in the brain-dead command line shell of Windows (a.k.a. the DOS prompt), then you need a collection of commonly used UNIX utilities that can run under Windows. You should first ask yourself why you are running an outdated and unsafe version of Windows, but that is another story...