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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:42:36 -0500
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From: "Lee D. Rothstein" <lee AT veritech DOT com>
Subject: Running man by double clicking a man page, from Explorer?
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Since 'man' pages for commands all have the same extension
('.1'), it seems to me that it should be possible to write a
batch file that calls 'bash' that 'invokes' man for the page?

This would allow you to double click a 'man 1' page, and voila, a
'cmd.exe'/'bash.exe' window would appear with the man page
displayed.

As it turns out, there are several things like this that I want
to do. So far, haven't been able to figure out how to do it.

Anybody solved this problem or "proved" it is unsolvable?

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Lee D. Rothstein -- lee AT veritech DOT com
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