From: weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com (Weiqi Gao) Subject: Re: What's the best (easiest) way to view man pages? 31 Jan 1998 19:48:33 -0800 Message-ID: <34D3ED8F.56485BCB.cygnus.gnu-win32@a.crl.com> References: <6mvuuvI4pfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Hirmke Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Michael Hirmke wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > >I have a package I need to use for school that has all its documentation in > >man pages. The tools compile and run under CygWin, but I need to view the > >documentation. There is no man viewer in CygWin, at least none that I can > >get to work. Is there any way to view these pages other than a text editor, > >(it's almost impossible to read them that way). The groff package was > >supposed to contain a man implementation, but alas there was none. > >Suggestions? > > No, the groff package is necessary for man, it doesn't contain it. > There is no real man port for Cygnus, but I have one here, that works - > don't know, where I got it from. > You have to compile groff, ncurses and less before you can get it to > work perfectly. If you want to leave out ncurses and less, you have to > get a different pager like more and change man.config. > > If anyone ist interested in this package - get it from my ftp site > here: > > ftp://minimike.franken.de/pub/system/UnixOnW32 > > The package name is man-1.4h-NT.bin.zip > > > > >I would think man would be a high priority for CygWin. Emacs and vi be > >damned--we already have more text editors than we can handle under Win32. We > >need a man page viewer. Long before groff was ported to DOS via DJGPP, I used a program called cawf. It is roughly equivalent to "nroff -man". It is still available at ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/txtutl/cawf404.zip -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".