Recently I installed Windows XP Professional to run certain software which is only available for Windows based systems. Having used Unix based systems for a while, I would like to make the Windows Command Prompt mimic the functionality of Terminal? Windows XP is dual booting with Slackware 9.1.

There is a package available called Cygwin (www.cygwin.com) which augments a Linux like environment into Windows. In particular, it adds support for Linux style commands and also implements an API to allow Linux applications to be easily ported to the Windows platform without a complete code rewrite (an example is PostgreSQL). The part you would be most interested in is the support for Linux commands. The Linux commands will be augmented into the Windows Command Prompt, or you can use bash which is included in the package. There are a lot of ins and outs with the software, so I suggest you read the documentation at cygwin.com/docs.html. If you want to download Cygwin, it is available free at their website.