Well I wouldn't consider that blout if it did a general purpose .bat would have to pass any legal ones, so even a .bat that was a real "substitute" instead of just a dangerous crutch would likely be as complex (and as large) as the compiled routine that was removed. If DELTREE served a useful purpose, it should have been left in. It didn't, so it was removed.at but I do agree a functional batch file could have problems.

As for Win and help (apart from using progs like word, etc.), I agree.

I'd say Linux (and I'm talking a friendly one - I use suse) is harder in that respect but you can get into the ways of things, eg. man command as mentioned above - I do wish the man pages gave examples of usage though.

The other useful thing IF you know it is there on my system is the /usr/share/doc folder and its sub folders. I have actualy gone as far as setting up virtual web servers (it is easy on a sytem already set up as a server) for a couple of the more useful stuff applications put there, eg. within my LAN I have apachedocs.folkinfo.org and phpdocs.folkinfo.org as handy references.

Of course it all comes down to you have to have found out how to help yourself before you can use the available help...