I discovered vim -m$ vi ed
I wrote a bunch of console apps using cmd to mimic unix
ls is
dir %1%2%3%4
cat is
type %1 %2 %3
rm is
del %1 %2 %3

I store them in a dir I call Unix. I set the path variable in such a way that it knows of the unix dir and now I have cat, ls, rm. %<number> is the command line arg passed in.

I found some additional very useful tools from http://sysinternals.com

Cheers,

-D