Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <007601c17333$cdefdda0$6c0012ac@POR026> Reply-To: "Gilgamesh Nootebos" From: "Gilgamesh Nootebos" To: "Charles Wilson" , "A. Lioubimov" Cc: "Robert Collins" , References: <000901c1727e$e77c18c0$ab05efc3@ndg> <00c201c1727e$26e14db0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <002201c17283$da8de8a0$ab05efc3@ndg> <3BFBEFF7.30609@ece.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: How to read *.man files (for example in /lib/cvs/contrib)? Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:58:01 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="KOI8-R" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Charles Wilson wrote: > A. Lioubimov wrote: > > > Thank you, but i don't know how yo use `man' for reading standalone files. > > What is the command line? > > > If you want to read an *uninstalled* man page, use this: > > > groff -Tascii -mandoc foo.1 > > --Chuck From de man manpage: If name contains a / then it is first tried as a filename, so that you can do man ./foo.5 or even man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz. Gilgamesh -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/