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From:	RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com (Radical NetSurfer)
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Subject:	Linux Man-Pages
Date:	16 Jan 2004 17:15:56 -0800
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I am curious if anyone has a self-contained
DJGPP-compiled Linux_Man-Page_Viewer ?

I have created a simple one, a challenge to show
some friends that installing Cygwin merely to view
Man-Pages (and other things) is foolish....

Interpreting the script-like commands was relatively
easy to do! Fonts and font_attributes were handled
by using Colors!

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I have also seen posts suggesting that the DJGPP
'info' application can view Linux Man-Pages;
would seem to me someone was misinformed!
Using DJGPP's info.exe program causes very peculiar
behavior! For example, typing EXIT at a Windows9x
dos prompt AFTER having used info.exe just once
causes the invocation of info.exe !!
I never understood why that happens; I tend to avoid
many of these utilities because of behavior like this.
It also adds many new items to the DOS environment
string-pool... and for the rare use of info...

Converting it to ordinary ascii text is still my favorite
method! [certainly is faster to find things!]

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