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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:12:53 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: man under djgpp
In-Reply-To: <32E823EC.5F30@cs.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970126161112.6261H-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> This is not true.  I don't have a 'man.exe' installed anywhere on my
> system and info still reads man pages perfecly well.
> 
> The only problem is that you can't load man pages into info from the
> command line (at least, I haven't been able to).  You must load info
> first, and then load the man page into it with the Ctrl-X Ctrl-F
> command.  

This is just a way to load *any* file into Info.  The feature that 
supports reading man pages is supposed to work with the man clone such as 
the batch file posted by Michael Mauch.

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