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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help?
Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 17:04:06 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-05-01, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2016 02:30 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> In discussions like these, it would be important to draw from
>>> precedents. Are there commands that have such an option?
>> 
>> It's pretty rare.  It is assumed that Unix uses can type " | less" 
>
> Is nobody except me questioning the assumption that we're only
> talking about Unix users?

Didn't the OP specify that he was writing a command-line utility for
Linux/Unix?

Discussing command line operation for Windows or OS-X seems rather
pointless.

-- 
Grant