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From: RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com (Radical NetSurfer)
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Subject: Re: Linux Man-Pages
Date: 19 Jan 2004 02:52:34 -0800
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Tis true... I don't use (and thus don't appreciate enough) these
utilities!

Its entirely a mute point now becuase INFO doesn't actually handle
true
Linux-style Man-Pages anywayz, and 'MAN.exe' isn't actually a Viewer
either
apparently....  I haven't seen a demonstration of SED with (g/t)roff
yet.

No need for all that additional overhead when direct methods would of
sufficed;
if only (ms-dos) DJGPP supported auto-loading on-the-fly 'DLL-like'
technology... Then the (g/t)roff engine would be quite easily
accesible w/out too much hastle and apparent overhead...

My goal of creating a simple viewer of Linux Man-Pages has been
obtained however!  Totally self-contained, and without any
fancy-smancy non-sense either!
Just feed it a file, and presto... displayed in the usual Man-Page
indented
format, with Section Headers and simple but adequate methods for 
handling "fonts/attributes"...(colors,etc)
I'm happy with the results.  And its redirectable into an ordinary
ASCII text file, device or whatever...

Sometimes the philosophy behind these utilities do leave me cold...
not all great minds think alike...(haha)

Always available to discuss/debate it...
ICQ: 67890170

Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote in message news:<buem5d$sjn$2 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>...
> Radical NetSurfer <RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> > run INFO.exe from the DJGPP \bin\ path, then after is it apparently
>                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^
> > shut down, 
> 
> That "apparently" is your problem, not info.exe or any of the other
> programs you accuse of similar silly behaviour.  You obviously did *not*
> actually shut it down, but pause it. 
> 
> You confused exiting a program with having that program give you a
> "sub-shell" (often called "Shell to DOS" in CUA-style full-screen DOS
> apps, e.g. things like RHIDE).  Exit info as it's supposed to be
> exited (type 'q'), and this will *never* happen, promised.  Go test it
> for yourself, right now.