From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: man under djgpp
Date:	Thu, 23 Jan 1997 18:52:28 -0800
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Michael Mauch wrote:
> 
> Are you really sure? AFAIK info does not search for man pages nor
> display them (I have txi390b installed). E.g., info simply calls "man
> bash", if you say "info bash" and there's no bash.inf file around.
> Info then redirects your man's output and displays it in its own
> window. Until I find a good DOS version of man, I use the following
> batch file (man.bat):

This is not true.  I don't have a 'man.exe' installed anywhere on my
system and info still reads man pages perfecly well.

The only problem is that you can't load man pages into info from the
command line (at least, I haven't been able to).  You must load info
first, and then load the man page into it with the Ctrl-X Ctrl-F
command.  

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