X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <4008B4FF.27D15456@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Linux Man-Pages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:05:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.76.134.99 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1074312331 12.76.134.99 (Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:05:31 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:05:31 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Radical NetSurfer wrote: > > I am curious if anyone has a self-contained > DJGPP-compiled Linux_Man-Page_Viewer ? What's wrong with "man". Works fine here. I believe it needs to have "less" available. > ... snip ... > > 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... You have something seriously mis-installed. I run info here in a separate window with: start c:\djgpp\infolnk.pif and the pif was made by modifying a console window. So info opens a separate window, runs, and closes it on exit. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!