Duplicate of #743. Closing.

Reopening. #743 has a powershell script but I'm on command prompt most of the time. It doesn't hurt to mention the dumb way I suppose.

To any maintainers, if you want to accept both this and #743, you might need to manually merge stuff

I'm a Windows 10 Pro user and am very confused about where the 'cheat.exe' executable comes from. Upon reading the doc I installed GO, which did create a 'cheat.exe' in a go\bin directory. However, as soon as I executed 'cheat.exe' from that library, it disappeared! I think Windows saw it as a virus!? So if someone can point me in the right direction on the proper way to install CHEAT on Windows, I'd like to take it for a spin.
Thanks in advance to all who reply.
Dan

I'm a Windows 10 Pro user and am very confused about where the 'cheat.exe' executable comes from. Upon reading the doc I installed GO, which did create a 'cheat.exe' in a go\bin directory. However, as soon as I executed 'cheat.exe' from that library, it disappeared! I think Windows saw it as a virus!? So if someone can point me in the right direction on the proper way to install CHEAT on Windows, I'd like to take it for a spin. Thanks in advance to all who reply. Dan

@danbromberg Oops, didn't see.

What I added was under "install manually" section. The exe is in cheat-windows-amd64.exe.zip in the releases.

Go is something else.

Where is the INSTALL MANUALLY section? A URL would help. Thnx, Dan

current version, my proposed change

Also alsd4git proposed a change to the install instruction that uses Chocolatey package manager.

Thanks for the link, User670, you've been very helpful.
BTW, is there a way I could've found this link myself from the main github's CHEAT page?
(I often find navigating around GitHub very unintuitive).

Thanks for the link, User670, you've been very helpful. BTW, is there a way I could've found this link myself from the main github's CHEAT page? (I often find navigating around GitHub very unintuitive).

Go to the cheat repository (https://github.com/cheat/cheat ).

In the readme below the list of files, there is an "installing" section that has a link to an "INSTALLING.md". That gives you the current version of the install guide (which lacks an instruction for Windows).

For my version or alsd4git's version, go to the respective pull request, select the "files changed" tab, and on the diff for the file, use the three dots icon, and select "view file" in the drop down.