From: "Ingo Ruhnke" <grumbel AT gmx DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: patch.1 documentation for pat25b.zip
Date: 3 Jan 1998 20:56:07 GMT
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Myknees <myknees AT aol DOT com> schrieb im Beitrag
<19980103005200 DOT TAA11056 AT ladder01 DOT news DOT aol DOT com>...
> Recently I downloaded patch in the form of pat25b.zip from Simtel.  The
> documentation, though doesn't seem readable from the info standalone
document
> viewer.  I even tried running makeinfo on it, in a fit of desperation,
and then
> opening it with ctrl-x ctrl-f.  
> 
> The documentation file in question is patch.1.  Does anyone know what
format
> this is and how to read the documentation?
> 

AFAIK this is a man file, you need "less" and "man" to view it. You can
also view it with a normal text-viewer, but that dosen't look very nice.
You can get them from Simtel "less" should be in the /v2gnu/ directory and
"man" IIRC in the /v2app/.

Ingo
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