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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: How do you make "man" work?
Date: 5 May 2000 12:28:21 GMT
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Lars Blaabjerg <lab AT ---spam filter---ready.dk> wrote:

> But I need to be able to read unformatted unix man pages in a windows
> environment and the only thing I've found is djgpp's man. 

You may not have looked carefuly enough. I know of at least one other
DOS-based solution, called 'cawf', that can replace groff for the
formatting stage, almost perfectly. But you're right in that you
probably need a suitable port of GNU less to be able to view the
resulting backspace-enriched formatted manpages in all their glory.

> I downloaded the man13b, lss340b and gro110b from simtel, 

Just for viewing man pages, you don't strictly need 'man'. That's only
needed if you really want to have the 'man' command, as under Unix, and
automatic searching for man pages along the MANPATH.

[...]
> all I get is the following error message:
> ----
> Reformatting page.  Wait...d:/man/groff.exe: can't find `DESC' file
> d:/man/groff.exe:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'

Looks like you unpacked both 'man' and 'groff' incorrectly. They
should not be in a directory named d:/man, in d:/man/bin or similar.

You probably didn't preserve the directory structure expected by these
tools, when you unzipped them. 'pkunzip -d' or InfoZip's 'unzip'
(without options) would have done that.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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