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Okay, Heres the idea:

The administrator/owner makes a new 'forum thingy' and all that is allowed to post there is facts about commands

example:


Now when people reply information that can be used to expand the explaination, the creator of the thread updates the starting post with the content the replier had.

This wil basically turn this website into a batch forum AND wiki with easy explainations that most people understand

Or you can just use "command /?".

dosent work for me, but if its like the 'help' command, then i'd rather have a wiki, lol

first of all the help command dosent show examples nor explain the commands good enough ( for me atleast )

nitt wrote:Or you can just use "command /?".

It's a good source of info but it falls down in that it is incomplete. Example: FINDSTR /? does not indicate that you can use Errorlevel to check for completion. A wiki could start with the basic Command /? and then could be adjusted by the community for acquired knowledge. Another example: Help does not list all useful commands that are valid for Vista and 7. Some that come to mind are TIMEOUT and SETX and CHOICE

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.

I'm all for having a wiki, because then the community will be able to add clarity and detail for those who cannot get things as easily



-- Phillid