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From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: man pages
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 00:56:44 -0600
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DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, John M. Aldrich wrote:
> John Altendorf wrote:
> > does anyone know of any ms-dos programs out there that work like the UNIX

> installation, all you need to do is load the man pages into the latest
> version of Info.  It will read them in and convert them and you can then
> use the 'print-node' command to print the man page to a plain text

Gee, now I read this, after spending 36 (cumulative) hours debugging some
QBASIC programs to convert them. ;)

Anyway, I'm happy with my results, I printed LIBC.INF in 228 pages.


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