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Update for command line man page
Amendment to CLI documentation re: Windows GUI/console executable differences and behaviours, as per arduino#3461, unless it is expected to change in the near future...
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Note that on MacOS X, the main executable is
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'Arduino.app/Contents/MacOS/Arduino' instead of 'arduino'.
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Note that on Windows, due to the diffence between GUI and console apps, that the
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'arduino_debug.exe' is the appropriate executable to use if you want to use the majority
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of these command line options. The 'arduino.exe' GUI version of the launcher **may** perform
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some of the functions described below, but will not output any messages to the console,
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meaning it is pretty useless if you want any feedback or to be able to keep log files for
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automated testing, etc.
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