Where are CMD's help files stored in Windows

Question

In Linux, I can use man ls to get help, and I know that the help files for the ls command are stored in the "man" folder. In Windows CMD, I can use dir /? to get help, but where are the help files for CMD commands stored?

Answer 1

Your question basically is if you know a command, then you want to find that binary file's path. Which is equivalent to the question:

Is there an equivalent of 'which' on the Windows command line?

Please look at the following answer in the above question https://stackoverflow.com/a/27140194

Answer 2

In cmd , there are internal commands and external commands. Internal commands reside in cmd.exe , external commands are executables.

The help for internal commands also is inside cmd.exe , the help for external commands is in their .EXE.

See here for details.