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 Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Michael Sanders 
 Re: Usage/Help Screen Conventions 
 23 Dec 25 21:41:47 
 
From: ldo@nz.invalid

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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