Actually, I think MS-DOS 5 had a quite good HELP command. It had to because MS 5 was a response to DR DOS 5 and it did.
But I have a feeling the HELP.EXE command appeared in DOS 4.
Rewind a few years to MS-DOS 3.3 and you'd be right, though.
Saying that, it took me literally years to discover that the Unix for Help was "man".
It helped. Not much, because man pages were mostly awful until GNU info tried to replace it, then people woke up and improved them, but it was a bit of a help.
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Re: There's no turning back the tide
Date: 2025-05-29 06:04 pm (UTC)Actually, I think MS-DOS 5 had a quite good HELP command. It had to because MS 5 was a response to DR DOS 5 and it did.
But I have a feeling the HELP.EXE command appeared in DOS 4.
Rewind a few years to MS-DOS 3.3 and you'd be right, though.
Saying that, it took me literally years to discover that the Unix for Help was "man".
It helped. Not much, because man pages were mostly awful until GNU info tried to replace it, then people woke up and improved them, but it was a bit of a help.