From: jp AT NuanceCom DOT COM ("J. P. Shipherd") Subject: Re: man program anywhere? 6 Jan 1997 13:23:58 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701061917.LAA16318.cygnus.gnu-win32@lucy.nuancecom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.94) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: aurel AT xylo DOT owl DOT de (Aurel Balmosan), gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com (Maillist Cygnus) In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Aurel Balmosan writes: > Hi, > > I installed the version beta 17.1 but I am missing the man program. > There are some manual pages but where is the program to read them. > Also nroff/groff is missing. (which is needed to read the manual > pages) I downloaded all.tar.gz. Do I need an addtional package for > these tools? I posted this question earlier. Unfortunatly it seems that there are more questions then answers on this list. I don't think there is a win32 version of man. But the man pages are available in winhelp format from: http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/ I got this info by looking at the archive for this mailing list at: http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32/subject.html --jp > BTW: In my installation the bash has a problem finding dos executables > in the PATH. E.g: edit. Is this a common problem? > - Can't speak for anyone else, but I can't run dos programs either. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".