Redesign CLI flags, help, and argument validation - #3061
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The five C CLI programs now expose descriptive, role-specific long flags such as
--server-port,--listen-port, and--destination, while retaining working short aliases. Help is grouped by purpose and includes--version.Explicit transport and address-family flags override configuration, with the last flag winning: for example,
--tcp-only --ipv4-firstoverrides a UDP-only, IPv6-first configuration. Invalid options, missing arguments, invalid numeric values, and positional arguments return status 2 with diagnostics on stderr that omit argument values. Previously ignored server/manager-lis now rejected. Doxygen HTML and man-page sources document the new interface and compatibility details.Validation on macOS after rebasing onto current master: