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   Message 241,898 of 243,242   
   Michael Sanders to Keith Thompson   
   Re: Usage/Help Screen Conventions   
   11 Nov 25 23:31:12   
   
   From: porkchop@invalid.foo   
      
   On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:58:46 -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:   
      
   > Particularly in this case, I probably wouldn't make the subcommands   
   > available as standalone commands.  "tinybase query" presumably makes   
   > sense to users, but just "query" is too vague.  Even more so for   
   > "manual".  And you would introduce a lot of opportunities for collisions   
   > with existing commands.   
      
   Sure enough. Best left up to the user in any event.   
      
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