From: david@coent.demon.co.uk (David Coe) Subject: Re: Man pages 13 May 1997 23:53:45 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33783346.5628.cygnus.gnu-win32@coent.demon.co.uk> References: <33776400.607DAB28@po.cwru.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: kdw3@po.cwru.edu Original-CC: Cygnus Gnu-win32 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Kevin White wrote: > > Is there a port of "man" for NT 4.0? I adore bash but I really would > like to be able to use and even build man pages for my NT box. Man-1.4h (from the Linux distribution) configures and compiles under B17.5 without change except for deletion in man.c of setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, ""); You will need less and groff. Roll your own under gnu-win32 or download VCC versions from: http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/ If you want to automatically generate preformatted and compressed man pages you also need a good version of gzip: http://sunsite.doc.ac.uk/packages/zip/WIN32/ I'm afraid the gnu-win32 (B17.5) version of gunzip gives unpacking problems for me. Good luck, -- Dr David Coe \=\ 58 Fairlawn Drive, East Grinstead \=\ Tel +44 1342 326860 West Sussex, RH19 1NT, United Kingdom \=\ Fax +44 1342 316019 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".