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From: vischne AT ibm DOT net
Subject: Re: What's the best (easiest) way to view man pages?
3 Feb 1998 12:47:59 -0800 :
Message-ID: <199802031612.QAA121252.cygnus.gnu-win32@out5.ibm.net>
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

>   Mark Hadfield (m DOT hadfield AT niwa DOT cri DOT nz)
>       
>Tim Fisher wrote:
>
>>I was hoping there might be either a version of man that doesn't depend on
>>less, or maybe some other program I've never heard of that can read
>>man-format files (and display them properly). Since I've never actually
>seen
>>a version of man that didn't' use more/less, I'm not real optimistic on
>that
>>one. I have a feeling man will never work right until less works right.
>
>I use man2html:
>
I don't know what you are talking about.  I compiled less under b18, and
it works better than less under Linux.  No problem whatever.  Are you
using the right curses/ncurses/slangcurses library?

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