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   Herbert Kleebauer to Kenny McCormack   
   Re: Two simple, but related questions ab   
   30 Sep 20 21:18:31   
   
   From: klee@unibwm.de   
      
   On 30.09.2020 01:40, Kenny McCormack wrote:   
      
   >>> 2) Just out of curiosity, where are the command line args documented   
   >>> in the   
   >>>     DOS/Windows command prompt help system?  I know that things like   
   >>>     %~xX are documented in "help for", but what about the really basic   
   >>>     stuff, like %1, %2, %*?   
      
   call /?   
      
   >>This seems a good point to start.   
   >>https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-args.html   
      
   > Strange that you have to go out to the Internet to find documentation of   
   > something so obvious.  Why isn't it in the basic help system?   
      
   https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56846   
      
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