WinSG Re: [Ms-nfs41-client-devel] ANN: NFSv4.1 filesystem client Windows driver binaries for Windows 10/11 for testing, 2024-05-28 ...

Dan Shelton dan.f.shelton@gmail.com
Thu Jun 6 21:37:41 GMT 2024


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
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