Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 18:07:43 +0200
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject: Re: man
To: mark AT forvus DOT co DOT uk (Mark Carter)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Organization: RWTH Aachen, III. physikalisches Institut B
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In article <01bc7dac$214ef1c0$0d00a8c0 AT MARK> you wrote:
> I need a a programme to convert unix man pages to ascii. I'm sure that I've
> seen something like this under DJGPP, but I can't for the life of my find
> it.

Two possiblities:

1) The big, full-fledged one: get groff. The mail list archives will tell
you where to get it, if it's not in the SimTel.Net djgpp tree.

2) The small solution, calls CAWF 'C-written Amazingly Workable
Formatter' (it's re-implementation of AWF, which in turn was written
in AWK...). Does rather well with most properly written man pages.  I
use it all the time.

None of these two solutions will give you a 'man.exe' though. If you
want that, and can't find any, mail back to me. I have one at home,
but I don't remember where I originally got that from (something
originally written for ATARI's, I think).

And, BTW, be sure to use LESS to read the resulting ASCII files with
all that backspace-and-overtypeing in it: it'll do you the favour of
converting it to coloured text (one for 'underlined', one for 'bold',
and one for normal text). Looks really good.

HBB