From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: man under djgpp Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:50:02 -0800 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 33 Message-ID: <32E03A5A.1898@cs.com> References: <32DF9491 DOT 1030 AT bigfoot DOT com> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp101.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eric Devolder wrote: > > Hello, I'm back again. > > I asked myself if it exist a version of 'man' for djgpp? otherwise, is it possible (with our without a few > modifications of the source code) to recompile the gnu version? Probably, but you don't need it. The Info browser that comes with the djgpp distribution (v2gnu/txi390b.zip) understands man pages and can display them and even print them out if necessary. To do this, start Info and press Ctrl-X,Ctrl-F. Then type in the name of the file. To print it out, press Alt-X, and type "print-node". If you want to save the man page to a plain text file, edit your 'djgpp.env' file and add a line to the [info] section that reads as follows: [info] INFO_PRINT_COMMAND=%/>;INFO_PRINT_COMMAND%cat >c:\info.prn You must have installed the GNU textutils (txt119b.zip) to get 'cat.exe'. If not, replace "cat" in the above line with "type". If you want the text to go to a different file, change the name appropriately. -- John M. Aldrich * Anything that happens, happens. * Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. * Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. * It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though. --- Douglas Adams