X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com (Radical NetSurfer) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Linux Man-Pages Date: 16 Jan 2004 17:15:56 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 32 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.120.101.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1074302157 27891 127.0.0.1 (17 Jan 2004 01:15:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:15:57 +0000 (UTC) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I am curious if anyone has a self-contained DJGPP-compiled Linux_Man-Page_Viewer ? I have created a simple one, a challenge to show some friends that installing Cygwin merely to view Man-Pages (and other things) is foolish.... Interpreting the script-like commands was relatively easy to do! Fonts and font_attributes were handled by using Colors! ----- I have also seen posts suggesting that the DJGPP 'info' application can view Linux Man-Pages; would seem to me someone was misinformed! Using DJGPP's info.exe program causes very peculiar behavior! For example, typing EXIT at a Windows9x dos prompt AFTER having used info.exe just once causes the invocation of info.exe !! I never understood why that happens; I tend to avoid many of these utilities because of behavior like this. It also adds many new items to the DOS environment string-pool... and for the rare use of info... Converting it to ordinary ascii text is still my favorite method! [certainly is faster to find things!] Replies to the group, and/or RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com ICQ: 67890170