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On 08/10/2025 23:53, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 08.10.2025 18:41, bart wrote:
>>
>> I don't care about the problems with man.
> 
> Which "problems with man"? - In decades I've never had problems with
> man. - Are you again making things up?
> 
>> But people are telling me to
>> use 'man' to find out the answer to a question
> 

> I'd suggest to follow that advice

I was quite reluctant to respond to your post given the insults and 
condescension I suffered earlier this year in comp.lang.c, which nearly 
gave me a nervous breakdown.

You (and others) simply HAD to turn every technical point I made into a 
personal attack: it was always my fault; I was always wrong; I was 
simply stupid.

Unfortunately little seems to have changed.

Here, there WAS an issue with getting 'man' to display that info. 
Discovering the right set of incantations to get the info I needed WAS 
troublesome.

I simply wanted to know the form of that C that A68G generated, since 
the performance of that C was still quite slow.

At least there are some magical things I have discovered:

* There is nothing complicated or confusing about A68G's options; they
   are perfect

* There is nothing wrong with A68's --stack option despite it not
   working. If a stack-heavy program fails with 'stack overflow', it's
   not because the stack is too small!

* A68G is considered fast


> You may be lazy (and that's okay), and want others do your homework;

I didn't start a dozen threads asking stuff about Algol 68 Genie!