Why is there any need? It is built into every PC anyway. If it is locked down, then I doubt any third party replacement would work, as they would have to interface with the normal one in some way anyway... Maybe I'm wrong though...
You can add a shortcut to c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe (assuming that %windir% is standard on the machine), and use '/k "%pdrive%"' as the command line parameters. This will open a command window to the root of your portable drive.
Or, you could build a launcher program with NSIS to check the %ComSpec% environment variable, and execute that directly. Here's some starting code (that doesn't take command line parameters to change directories):
Why is there any need? It is built into every PC anyway. If it is locked down, then I doubt any third party replacement would work, as they would have to interface with the normal one in some way anyway... Maybe I'm wrong though...
You're right, there's really no need, but if someone did want a portable command line, check out Console
OTBSoft ::Thinking Outside The Box::
You can add a shortcut to c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe (assuming that %windir% is standard on the machine), and use '/k "%pdrive%"' as the command line parameters. This will open a command window to the root of your portable drive.
Or, you could build a launcher program with NSIS to check the %ComSpec% environment variable, and execute that directly. Here's some starting code (that doesn't take command line parameters to change directories):
I may actually replace my shortcuts with this app.
Legal Stuff: I hereby release the above code to the public domain. Enjoy.