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A dumb hack to make my school computers less painful

cmd-without-cmd

A dumb hack to make my school computers less painful.

This enables the command prompt on computers which will execute batch scripts when .bat files are double-clicked, but responds to an execution of cmd with "the command prompt has been disabled by your administrator".

This works by asking for user input in a loop and explicitly evaluating that input. This way, we can achieve the functionality of cmd.exe without actually using the official interactive prompt mode.