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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Michael Sanders   
   Re: Usage/Help Screen Conventions   
   08 Nov 25 07:58:31   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 7 Nov 2025 19:51:29 -0000 (UTC), Michael Sanders wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 7 Nov 2025 19:43:28 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> Now you’re starting to write an entire man page within your program.   
   >   
   > Emacs! =)   
   >   
   > I'm working on whittling it down Lawrence, its just that I cant hit that   
   > elusive (for me) mark between terse/concise.   
      
   These days, I don’t bother. For more complex projects, I write up a   
   detailed man page and include it with the program.   
      
   Probably my largest such project:    
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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