mkd is a software application for extracting pre-encoded comments lines to generate software documentation according to the ISO/IEC standard. mkd is an abbreviation of ''make documentation''. mkd was originally known as ''mkdoc''.

Availability

mkd is compilable 'as is' for all UNIX or Linux systems (format of characters UTF-8) and has been used extensively with

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on Personal computers, on SUN Sparc and

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, up of the year 2000 in the ASCII format; The location of the directories was different from the current location (man, whatis, ...). The

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and

RPM packages are distributed since 2015 by the maintainers of mkd. For

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and Ubuntu systems, mkd is provided and distributed as Ubuntu packages of launchpad mkd is, in principle, compatible with all Unix and Linux systems, except, sometimes, the location of the manuals and documentations directories. mkd is also available for

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Since September 2018, mkd Windows is on the site : https://eell.fr.

Bibliography

* Reference manual ''man mkd''
First ISO Catalogue
*

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* Comparison of documentation generators * https://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mkd_(Extracteur_de_documents) *
Construction d'un paquet RPM avec l'archive source de mkd

Sources

; Downloads mkd Debian-Ubuntu on launchpad :
Packages : all, amd64 and i386

Sources : mkd_140315.tar.gz
; Downloads all archives on the maintainers site ; * https://eell.fr : ''RPM sources and packages (

, and so on).'' : ''Sources and distributions for Windows systems and its derivatives (Cygwin, Mingw).''

References

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