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On Mon 13 Aug 2018, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Aug 12 19:53, cyg Simple wrote:
>> The documentation for cygwin-console-helper.exe is missing, not even a
>> --help function.
>
> cygwin-console-helper.exe is not for the user to use, so why add
> user docs?

It is helpful to users to have a --help option that tells them that this
is an internal tool that they should not be fiddling with, and a brief
description of what it is for.

    AndyM


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