From: kunglao@prairienet.org Subject: Re: man program anywhere? 7 Jan 1997 12:52:09 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701071952.NAA17330.cygnus.gnu-win32@firefly.prairienet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > 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* - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".