Message-ID: <3B449585.1ACB3C60@postmark.net> From: Jason Hood Organization: NiteRider X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Man program References: <3B409CC8 DOT 198848AD AT postmark DOT net> <9743-Mon02Jul2001230323+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.7.180.38 X-Original-Trace: 6 Jul 2001 02:47:04 +1000, 202.7.180.38 Lines: 44 Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 02:27:50 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.12.160.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT telstra DOT net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 994350480 203.12.160.33 (Fri, 06 Jul 2001 02:28:00 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 02:28:00 EST To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: Jason Hood > > > > After having installed GLOBAL, I was wondering if 'man' should use > > 'mandoc' as default instead of 'man'? > > I don't think so. Why would we need that? You can always run Groff > with whatever switches you want, can't you? It's a lot easier to do "man global" than "groff -mandoc d:/djgpp/man/man1/global.1" I suppose I should just keep the formatted version, anyway. > In any case, GLOBAL should come with formatted man pages, so you > shouldn't worry about mandoc. Not the sources. > > If so, I'd be willing to make the change and upload the new version. > > I'm still maintaining `man', so if you want to suggest changes, please > send the diffs to me, or post them here. Okay. Not that it really matters, now, I suppose :) but here it is: --- man.c~ Sat Feb 19 12:57:44 2000 +++ man.c Fri Jul 6 02:23:10 2001 @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ /* The .exe suffix in program names is so we get better diagnostics from `system' library function when the shell is COMMAND.COM. */ static char *pager = "less.exe -c"; -static char *groff = "groff.exe -man -Tascii"; +static char *groff = "groff.exe -mandoc -Tascii"; # ifdef __DJGPP__ static char *manpath = "c:/djgpp/man;c:/djgpp/info;/usr/man"; # else The comment about manpath was fair enough. Jason.