Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:20:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Trying to RTFM
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Kirk Hobart wrote:

> I want to read the *.1 documentation files from the djgpp source
> archive bnu281s.zip, but I don't recognize the format.

Wrong archive.  You should use bnu281b.zip, which should include all
the docs already formatted for you.

> Is there a DOS utility that converts them to plain text?

If you need it, use Groff (a DJGPP port is available in
v2gnu/gro110b.zip), like this:

	groff -man ar.1 | less

(Less is also available from the v2gnu directory).