Microsoft's Windows OSs owe much of their early success to their GUI, a dramatic departure from the text-oriented OSs of the day. I can still remember the effect the Windows 3.0 interface had on me after years of working with 24 * 80 green-screen systems. As the OS has matured, however, Microsoft has realized that a command-line utility is superior to a graphical one in many situations. Automation is the most obvious area. You can use a few command-line utilities and a batch file to create a sc...