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From: "Ross Smith" <ross DOT s AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: How can I view the man packages?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:18:14 +1200
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From: R. Hickling <hicklinr AT mcd DOT alcatel DOT be>
>> I've got a little problem: I downloaded the full-man.tar.bz2 and the
>> user-man.tar.bz2. After unzipping and untaring both, I figured out that
>> I do not have any viewer or similar to view the files without all that
>> formatting stuff in them.
>> Is there any "man" or "info"  command available or a place I can get
>> sources for such a one?
>
>There is an 'info' which probably can be made to work - check the mailing
>list over the last couple of weeks.  I, however, could not get it to work
>properly (NT4 SP4), or compile it from source properly.  Being in a hurry,
>I gave up and downloaded 'emacs':
>ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/docs/ntemacs.html
>which is small enough to download quickly, is a good editor and can be
>installed without having to use a brain.

Personally, I hate the Info presentation, so I wrote a quick and dirty
info-to-HTML translator. If anyone wants it you can grab it from
ftp://animal.ihug.co.nz/pub/infoweb.tgz

(It's still slightly buggy -- it sometimes misses links that are
split across multiple lines.)

--
Ross Smith ................................... mailto:ross DOT s AT ihug DOT co DOT nz
.............. The Internet Group, Auckland, New Zealand ..............
    "Perl is the Unix way. 500 million ways of doing the same thing,
    and 500 million monster egos all insisting on their way being
    the Proper way of doing it." -- David Parsons



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