From: fiore AT cs DOT buffalo DOT edu (Joseph N Fiore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: man under djgpp
Date: 27 Jan 1997 03:47:47 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On 25 Jan 1997, Joseph N Fiore wrote:

: > Do use the stand alone info... txi*.zip or djgpp's emac?
: > In emacs, I start up info, C-X C-F cat.1n, and it loads it as flat text...
: > control characters and all.

: Emacs has its own command to read man pages (`M-x man RET').  Did you try 
: to use it?

meta-x man RET  asks for the page I want to view.  I tried 'cat' and got:
Symbol's function definition is void: start-process

The Message buffer also mentions: Invoking man cat in the background

I'm not up on this emacs in DOS stuff but I guess it can run a sub-process.
Same for ispell, shell, and the like.
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Joe <fiore AT cs DOT buffalo DOT edu>
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