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Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by ryannevius on Thursday March 12, 2015 @05:39AM (#9189795)
It's not quite the same...but Git Bash for Windows[1] is an awesome substitute for the Windows command prompt.

[1] http://git-scm.com/downloads

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Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by babuskov on Thursday March 12, 2015 @06:40AM (#9189949)
AFAIK, that's actually MSYS. But since I need git anyway, I'm using exactly that, together with MinGW-w64 and it works quite well.
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