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  • Re: Usage/Help Screen Conventions

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.c on Tue Dec 23 21:41:47 2025
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    On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:41:42 -0000 (UTC), Michael Sanders wrote:

    On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:55:28 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    txt? pdf? html? man? doc?

    They can all be generated from groff -man.

    And then only under Linux/BSD, not 2% of your potential audience.

    Both Microsoft and Apple are supporting Linux VMs as a standard part
    of an OS install nowadays. I wonder where the demand is coming from
    ...

    And man pages can't link to other referenced citations.

    They can all have links. You mean *clickable* links? Some of those
    formats can do those.
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