From: F DOT J DOT Wright AT qmw DOT ac DOT uk ("Dr Francis J. Wright") Subject: Re: Does anyone have a man command?? [Fwd: Re: man for NT Emacs?] 27 Mar 1997 22:29:15 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <333A58CC.2042.cygnus.gnu-win32@Maths.QMW.ac.uk> Reply-To: F DOT J DOT Wright AT qmw DOT ac DOT uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------280D18A27FC3" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Original-To: craft AT alacritech DOT com Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, Kevin DOT DElia AT mci DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com --------------280D18A27FC3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Peter Craft wrote: > > I'm not sure if this mailing list is the right place to > send this question, but I'm trying to find a man command > to allow me to view the man pages that are distributed with > the gnu-win32 toolset. I've searched everywhere, but can't > seem to find one (or an equivalent *roff command). Hmm! This seems to be the question of the moment! Attached is a response I sent a few minutes ago to a related list. --------------280D18A27FC3 Content-type: message/rfc822 Message-ID: <333A50E0 DOT 4017 AT Maths DOT QMW DOT ac DOT uk> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 10:50:08 +0000 From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" Reply-To: F DOT J DOT Wright AT qmw DOT ac DOT uk Organization: Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary - University of London X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) To: Kevin DOT DElia AT mci DOT com CC: ntemacs-users AT cs DOT washington DOT edu Subject: Re: man for NT Emacs? References: <33399D76 DOT 223B AT mci DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Kevin D'Elia wrote: > > Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of 'man' for NT Emacs? I am > using the cygnus tools and would like to view the man pages which come > with the product using M-x man. Thanks in advance to all who respond... I'd be very interested in a good answer to this question myself. Meanwhile ... There is a remark somewhere in the Cygnus stuff to the effect that they have not yet ported man, but that if they did then they would probably include it in the distribution. I don't know whether it is difficult to port, or just that no-one has yet done it. I think we will also need nroff/troff, which can be replaced by the GNU version (groff ?), which also needs to be ported ... I'm considering looking at the Linux sources, which (except for the kernel) I believe are just ports of GNU. Actually, I'd rather have info files than man files. Some come with Cygnus, but a lot appear to be missing, and my first step will be to copy them from Linux. (On our Linux systems they are about 5Mb of *.info.gz files in /usr/info which I shall tar and ftp.) Maybe that will suffice. I would take them from a GNU archive, but as far as I can see the documentation is all buried in the complete distribution for each program and is not available separately (is it?). But I'd be grateful anyone who finds or ports man and/or groff could let me know, please. Thanks, Francis -- Dr Francis J. Wright (Senior Tutor for Mathematics) School of Mathematical Sciences | Email: F DOT J DOT Wright AT QMW DOT ac DOT uk Queen Mary & Westfield College | Telephone: +44 171-975 5453 (direct) Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK | Fax: +44 181-981 9587 (dept.) World Wide Web Home Page URL: http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~fjw/ --------------280D18A27FC3-- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".