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Subject: Re: formatted man pages with rcs binaries
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Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 16:01:31 -0600
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Man is too cryptic for some DOS people. THey'd never be able to
understand it.

Jeff Williams wrote:
[SNIP]
> I recently downloaded the djgpp port of RCS (rcs5317[sb].zip) for
> testing and evaluation.
> Walter Tichy's essay on RCS does not describe all of the options
> that are available for each RCS command, and the rcs5713b.zip file
> does not contain documentation.  The source for RCS man pages is
> in rcs5317s.zip, however, so I used 'nroff -man' on a Unix box to
> generate formatted man pages, which I then placed in djgpp/src/rcs-5.7/cat
> and can access using the djgpp ports of `man' and `less'.
> For those who generally d/l only the binaries of djgpp ports, perhaps
> future releases of the djgpp port of RCS should include formatted
> man pages in the binary package.  Just a suggestion....
>