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> From: RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com (Radical NetSurfer)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 16 Jan 2004 17:15:56 -0800
> 
> I am curious if anyone has a self-contained
> DJGPP-compiled Linux_Man-Page_Viewer ?

As you've already discovered, someone already did that.

> Interpreting the script-like commands was relatively
> easy to do! Fonts and font_attributes were handled
> by using Colors!

Why not simply use Groff?  That's how `man' is supposed to work: any
man page that needs to be formatted is run via troff/Groff.  (The
DJGPP binary distributions usually include formatted man pages so that
end users will not need to install Groff, which is a large package.)

> I have also seen posts suggesting that the DJGPP
> 'info' application can view Linux Man-Pages;
> would seem to me someone was misinformed!

Before or after installing the `man' program?

If that happens after you have man.exe installed, something is wrong
either with man.exe or with your system configuration: it works for
me.

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