<s>
mkd	B-Application
is	O
a	O
software	B-Application
application	I-Application
for	O
extracting	O
pre-encoded	O
comments	O
lines	O
to	O
generate	O
software	O
documentation	O
according	O
to	O
the	O
ISO/IEC	O
standard	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
mkd	B-Application
is	O
an	O
abbreviation	O
of	O
make	O
documentation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
mkd	B-Application
was	O
originally	O
known	O
as	O
mkdoc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
mkd	B-Application
is	O
compilable	B-Language
'	O
as	O
is	O
 '	O
for	O
all	O
UNIX	B-Application
or	O
Linux	B-Application
systems	O
(	O
format	O
of	O
characters	O
UTF-8	O
)	O
and	O
has	O
been	O
used	O
extensively	O
with	O
Red	O
Hat	O
on	O
Personal	O
computers	O
,	O
on	O
SUN	B-Architecture
Sparc	I-Architecture
and	O
HP-UX	B-Application
,	O
up	O
of	O
the	O
year	O
2000	O
in	O
the	O
ASCII	B-Protocol
format	O
;	O
The	O
location	O
of	O
the	O
directories	O
was	O
different	O
from	O
the	O
current	O
location	O
(	O
man	O
,	O
whatis	O
,	O
...	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Fedora	O
and	O
Red	O
Hat	O
RPM	O
packages	O
are	O
distributed	O
since	O
2015	O
by	O
the	O
maintainers	B-General_Concept
of	O
mkd	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
mkd	B-Application
is	O
,	O
in	O
principle	O
,	O
compatible	O
with	O
all	O
Unix	B-Application
and	O
Linux	B-Application
systems	O
,	O
except	O
,	O
sometimes	O
,	O
the	O
location	O
of	O
the	O
manuals	O
and	O
documentations	O
directories	O
.	O
</s>
