From:	gmontem AT apollo (GEORGE ARUGAY MONTEMAYOR)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	man pages for DOS?
Date:	3 Oct 1997 22:34:56 GMT
Organization:	San Francisco State University
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NNTP-Posting-Host:	gmontem AT apollo DOT sfsu DOT edu
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hello,

I was looking in the book store for a reference book for C/C++, not the
'how-to-program C/C++' books, but the quick-reference on common C/C++
functions such as those in the 'stdio' and 'strings' library. Then
something hit me, the man pagges, but unfortunately I don't know if one
exists for use on MS-DOS.  The closest I can think of is the version that
runs on Linux, which of course comes with source code. Has anyone edited
and recompiled the Linux man pages program to work under MS-DOS? I would
like to be able to access the GNU C/C++ man pages without having to reboot
and load Linux, followed by rebooting back to DOS.

On a plus side to this, with man pages for DOS, developers can also
develop man pages for their libraries (allegro comes into mind), so we
don't have to run an editor to load a clunky text file and search for the
function in question.

George Montemayor
gmontem AT sfsu DOT edu

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