On 2014-04-02, Damien Miller <d...@mindrot.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
>> On 2014-04-01, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > Another approach is to extend the usage() in every program so that it
>> > provides more information.
>> 
>> Just embed the whole man page, as in curl -M.
>
> Putting stuff in usage() is pretty retro. Modern programs embed a small
> webserver so you can read the documentation with a web browser of your
> choice.

This is a good idea! To make it more standards compliant, we could use
the .chm HTML help format which is the de facto standard since 1997.

Best regards,
Jona

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