Exouxas wrote:first of all the help command dosent show examples nor explain the commands good enough ( for me atleast )
I am recently new at this again after a long period doing other and I am finding difficulty with syntax and capability of the commands and the changes that have happened since DOS.
One change I am still looking at is ANSI.SYS It appears to be no longer available. Too bad because you could work magic with it. I can remember making a batch file that disabled a randomly selected keyboard key at each boot.
What I am doing now is I have a folder with the Command /? output in it as TXT files and I just modify them with each bit of acquired knowledge (after I understand it). I only do this for commands of interest.
How to do this in win 7:
Create the folder
In explorer navigate to the folder, right click and select open Command window here
In the window do the command help with output to a file. Example: SETX /? > setx.txt
You could also do this as one big file in Word with a Table of Contents to index each command.
Another way is a html page for each command with an index page.
In one of my posts I referred to a Windows Help file (.CHM) that I found here
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=2632 but it is also lacking in some detail.
