From: "Colin W. Glenn" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Looking for a .man file Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:36:49 -0600 Organization: Greater New Orleans Free-Net Lines: 47 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: sparkie.gnofn.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <01IEY157SFOMB9U4K1@mail> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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. 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 C Programming Reference 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 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! The Light. A Christian Web Site!