don't forget to change the options in the calls to unix commands to the proper options in windows ;)
there are people in this world that get paid lots and only manage to change rm to del, and fail to see and won't even admit there's a difference...this is on a windows cygwin setup, sigh. anyway, if there's no software conflicts and you control the windows box, maybe install cygwin..so you can have some unix heaven on windows too.
the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H