Message-Id: <200002241914.OAA10340@delorie.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:32:47 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: Version 1.3 of man clone uploaded Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is to announce that version 1.3 of the man clone is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/man13b.zip ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/man13s.zip `man' is a program for formatting and browsing documentation written in the Unix ``man page'' format. This is a standard program on any Unix system. Since most ported packages come with man pages, and some don't have any other docs but man pages, this clone of the standard Unix command was written to fill the gap. The program is quite simple: it looks in several directories for the man page files, then constructs a formatting job (if required), then invokes Groff to format the pages and Less to display them. To read formatted pages, you only need Less, Groff is not required (see section 5.5 of the FAQ for more about this). This clone is suitable for use both as a stand-alone program, and as a back-end to Info and Emacs (which have built-in commands to display man pages). This is a maintenance release. A couple of bugs were fixed, docs were added (as a man page, of course ;-), and portability to Borland C, courtesy of Erwin Waterlander is now part of the distribution. Please direct any further discussions about this port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp news group (or write to its e-mail gateway djgpp AT delorie DOT com).