From:	"Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: Looking for a .man file
Date:	Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:36:49 -0600
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On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> Care to tell what that 'good information' is? Not that I'd want to

Somethings I write faster than I think and think I written something
already and really haven't so I go about writing about something which I
haven't really clearly thought out before posting something so I tend to
leave people a little confused every once in a while because I'm
referencing something which I haven't even written about yet though I
should of written it down before referencing it later on in the posting. 
Sorry. 

<Apply prune.exe)
> As to '.man' files, either that's something special that should have
> original Unix concept of providing online documentation on just about
> But then, there is no such thing as a C man page. There are, however,
> So to me it seems, the author of your source of information didn't
> care to point out clear enough that he's assuming you're on a Unix box

What it is, is that I found 
<a href="http://www.jaxnet.com/~garyg/C_ref/C/cref.html">
C Programming Reference
</a>
And the author of this excellent reference mentioned that the SOURCE for
his (extensively interconnected) web pages were available for download.
Great!  spend no web time learning C, do it offline.  Read download page,
problem, he's using *inx machine, LFN's.  So I ask him, is the source
readable though not usable on a DOS machine?  Yes!, I download.  After
extensive study, I figured out that one does not include propriorty data
files with such a distribution, he expects the pages to be used on a *inx
machine so the man files don't come along with the source files.

#include <sig.h>

Still good reading though if this:

> 	info libc alpha whatever

works, then I'll be able to expand my reader to 'extract' the man pages by
simply referencing the subject to info. 

Thanks much!

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