>>> I do, too, and I agree. Most Microsoft documentation sucks;
>>
>> Can you prove your words, please?
>
> You can't prove something subjective, but I agree with
> Gerhard that the documentation about CMD sucks.
> The details are there, maybe, but they are very difficult
> to find. =A0It's scattered in a bunch of help files in with a
> lot of other unrelated stuff. =A0As far as I know, there is
> no intro and overview to CMD.

You must be joking, bro. Regardless of the quality of the docs, there
always be a bozo complaining that the docs are not "for dummies"
enough, or not "big picture" enough.

That's none of their business to cook popular books on the
technologies. Their business is to provide comprehensive reference
sources for professionals.  And they've been doing that quite well for
decades.

"For dummies" and "big picture" kind of books are very subjective, one
that fits one mindset may not fit other. The amount of available "For
dummies" and "big picture" MS-related resources is tremendous. Only C#
books are hundreds,  thousands of great on-line free resources.

Your problem with cmd.exe is rather specific. Perhaps I'm wrong, but
from my understanding since Process.Start Method from
System.Diagnostics .Net Namespace has been available for the decade,
any sane developer would prefer creating simple C# or VB.NET program
with free MS Tools to wrap the functionality. Have a look at C# code,
for example, in:

Process.Start Method (ProcessStartInfo)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0w4h05yb%28VS.100%29.aspx

With "RedirectStandardOutput =3D true" you could read the output with
System.IO.StreamReader.


> Their app documentation still sucks though. =A0Have
> you ever tried to read thru the "manual" for Excell,
> for example. =A0You can't really.=A0It's sometimes useful
> for looking up specific things when you know what
> to ask, but that all-important overview and intro is
> apparently missing again.

"all-important overview and intro" must be beyond the professional
reference source, aren't you really getting it?

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