Where is saved the help of a command in Commandline (cmd.exe)?

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Hi all,
When I use commandline I see that: To finish an command with "/?" then I get its help, e.g:
C:\net/?
and get:

VB

NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP | HELP |
      HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | NAME | PAUSE | PRINT | SEND | SESSION |
      SHARE | START | STATISTICS | STOP | TIME | USE | USER | VIEW ]

So where are saved they? Thank in advandce.

Posted 1-Feb-11 20:47pm

Andrewpeter

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Solution 1

I don't know, but I have a batch file that automatically documents all available help in a single HTML document. Run this batch to generate this document:

Help generator — batch file.

This is not my work. Sorry, cannot tell the author right now; should be somewhere on my records.

—SA

Posted 1-Feb-11 20:55pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 1-Feb-11 21:00pm

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Espen Harlinn 2-Feb-11 16:10pm

Nice batch file, 5+

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Feb-11 16:38pm

Thank you, Espen.
Again, it's not mine, but this find saved good amount of my time.

(By the way, then I learned that batch language is no more such extreme crap as it was in the past. Now you can even make functions with variables, did you know that? Still crap, but without extreme crapwork...)

--SA

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-02T10:14:00

Solution 2

It's not unusual for console/commandline to embed the help text either as text in the code, as a resource, as a resource in a dll. I suspect that many of the Windows command line tools use resources located in language specific dll's.

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Espen Harlinn

Posted 2-Feb-11 10:14am

Espen Harlinn