> and have no desire to become an expert in fixing CMD

sorry, I meant you will list some older threads on the topic (which you did, thanks++ :) not you personally trying to fix (what is unfixable).

> generally, I try to avoid the shell as much as possible and do everything in Perl. :

best compromise would be a consistent Perl shell running on all platforms! :)

> I think you may be waiting for ikegami, who seems to be our Windows shell master.

Well, yeah. He might know if and how PS differs.