Peter, I share your pain. We now have a generation coming in that have no idea how to do anything that is not in "windows format" they put cleaning ladies to shame. (sorry, for you outside theis country, cleaning ladies "do not do windows" here). I personally like to use Windows for some of the things I do, but for repetetive operations with many parametres, nothing beat good old DOS.
hab' viel freude.
Erik Malunf