From:	jp AT NuanceCom DOT COM ("J. P. Shipherd")
Subject:	Re: man program anywhere?
6 Jan 1997 13:23:58 -0800 :
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Aurel Balmosan writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I installed the version beta 17.1 but I am missing the man program.
 > There are some manual pages but where is the program to read them.
 > Also nroff/groff is missing. (which is needed to read the manual
 > pages) I downloaded all.tar.gz. Do I need an addtional package for
 > these tools?

I posted this question earlier.  Unfortunatly it seems that there are
more questions then answers on this list.

I don't think there is a win32 version of man.  But the man pages are
available in winhelp format from:

 http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/

I got this info by looking at the archive for this mailing list at:

http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32/subject.html

--jp

 > BTW: In my installation the bash has a problem finding dos executables
 > in the PATH. E.g: edit. Is this a common problem? 
 > -
 Can't speak for anyone else, but I can't run dos programs either.
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