On Fri, 31 May 2024 at 23:20, Andrey Repin via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > Greetings, Bill Stewart! > > >> - WinSG should be installed in C:\Windows\system32\ alongside cmd.exe > > > Not IMHO. > > Agreed. If you want a single tool available in command line, use AppPaths > registry entry.
How does that work? > > >> - Native Windows utilities use /? for help, not --help > > > This is really only a loosely followed convention and not all Windows tools > > follow it. (Example: Windows PowerShell cmdlet parameters use "-", not "/".) > > Many tools don't care if you are using / or -, many yet use /h or -h or > --help. > > True, "/?" is old, but not prevalent. Especially not in modern Windows. Maybe, but this is what I would have tried first. dir cmd uses it, as most other things in the Windows console. Dan -- Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
