From: pd@kubism.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Subject: Re: man 20 Jan 1997 04:56:57 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: References: <199701181650.LAA79335@mailhub1.watson.ibm.com> Original-To: STRENSK@watson.ibm.com Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: STRENSK@watson.ibm.com's message of Sat, 18 Jan 97 11:47:13 EST X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.40/Emacs 19.34 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com STRENSK@watson.ibm.com writes: > New user question: Where's man? I see the man files but no reader. Also there > are info files which I also don't know how to read.Did not see this in the > FAQ or other online docs. Respond to strensk@watson.ibm.com. You can fake one with a slight amount of hacking about. First get nroff going: Get the version of groff via the web page (it's for NT, but also works with W95). Unpack it and move the binaries over to all the other stuff with bash and friends. The files in the share/groff directory want to live in /usr/local/share/groff, so just move them over there. It is necessary to create your own nroff command. Do this with a little shell script (nroff.exe): #!/bin/sh troff -Tascii $* | grotty Then create man.exe as something like #!/bin/sh $MANDIR=whateveryouneed nroff -man `echo $MANDIR/man*/$*.*` | less Oh, and first install less (pointer also on web page). This can be done with a straight copy. Copy it to more.exe for sanity preservation. Of course, you COULD also just install nroff, less, and man from their respective sources. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".