Message-Id: <199710211234.IAA02227@delorie.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:07:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: A DJGPP clone of Unix `man' command
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This is to announce the availability of the DJGPP clone for the Unix
`man' command.  You should be able to download it from your nearest
SimTel.NET mirror.  The main mirror site is:

  ftp://ftp.simtle.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/man10b.zip
  ftp://ftp.simtle.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/man10s.zip

This clone supports both Unix-style man/{man,cat}N directory
structure, and flat docs directories like many DOS installations
have.  Unlike on Unix, the man page files can have any extension, not
only .Nx (where N is a number and x an optional letter).  (The program
ignores Info files and compressed *.z* files.)

The program was tested both in interactive use (from the DOS prompt)
and as a subprogram of Info and Emacs (both of which can display man
pages).

You need to install Less (v2gnu/lssNNNb.zip), since `man' pipes the
man pages it finds to Less.  Alternatively, you can configure `man' to
use another pager by setting the PAGER environment variable.  The
README file and the on-line docs have more details.

Displaying unformatted man pages requires to Groff to be installed
(get v2gnu/groNNNb.zip).  Man pages which come with DJGPP binary
distributions *b.zip are always formatted, so you only need this if
you want to install and browse man pages from other sources.