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+<?xml version="1.0"?> <!--*- Mode: nxml; nxml-child-indent: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-->
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
+
+<variablelist>
+  <varlistentry id='help'>
+    <term><option>-h</option></term>
+    <term><option>--help</option></term>
+
+    <listitem id='help-text'>
+      <para>Print a short help text and exit.
+    </para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry id='version'>
+    <term><option>--version</option></term>
+
+    <listitem id='version-text'>
+      <para>Print a short version string and exit.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry id='no-pager'>
+    <term><option>--no-pager</option></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Do not pipe output into a pager.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry id='no-legend'>
+    <term><option>--no-legend</option></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Do not print the legend, i.e. column headers and the
+      footer with hints.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>