From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
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Subject: Re: Trying to RTFM
Date: 20 Aug 1998 03:36:17 GMT
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Kirk Hobart (your AT name DOT here) wrote:
: I want to read the *.1 documentation files from the djgpp source
: archive bnu281s.zip, but I don't recognize the format. Is there a DOS
: utility that converts them to plain text? Here's a snippet of ar.1:
: 
: .\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation
: .\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
: .TH ar 1 "5 November 1991" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
: .de BP
: .sp

It a format called roff or troff I think. At least troff is the
program that can format it to something readable.

Why don't you install bnu281b.zip and look at its documentation
instead, it's already formatted. As for looking at these txi312b.zip
and lss*b.zip is recommended.


New Model Army, Small Town England,

							MartinS