From:	kunglao AT prairienet DOT org
Subject:	Re: man program anywhere?
7 Jan 1997 12:52:09 -0800 :
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> You might be able to format man pages using groff, which is also
> available at:
> 
>    http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/groff-1.10nt.zip
> 
> I haven't tried this, but it should work, assuming the package
> includes the standard filter macros ("an" for the "-man" option in
> particular).  For example, to display the man page for the 'du'
> command you would type:
> 
>   groff -man c:\gnu-win32\man\man1\du.1
> 
> (Adjust the path to du.1 to wherever it lives in your installation.)
> 

that groff package only contains troff.exe.  And all I could get it 
to say was that it couldn't find a "DESC" file.  I installed it in 
/usr/local like the readme said... *shrug*

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