Re: Does anyone have a man command??

Re: Does anyone have a man command??

[Wei Ku]

> I'm not sure if this mailing list is the right place to
> send this question, but I'm trying to find a man command
> to allow me to view the man pages that are distributed with
> the gnu-win32 toolset.  I've searched everywhere, but can't
> seem to find one (or an equivalent *roff command).
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Pete

Since there is a question about man.exe. I have another similar question:
Where can I find the command: 'more' ?

Any reply is appreciated.

Sincerely,
Wei Ku

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more command (was: Re: Does anyone have a man command??)

[I.Ioannou]

On Thu, 27 Mar 1997 17:38:43 -0500, "Wei Ku" <weiku@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU> wrote:


>Since there is a question about man.exe. I have another similar question:
>Where can I find the command: 'more' ?
>
>Any reply is appreciated.

I have compile less-321  with Borland C/C++ 4.02. The makefile.bcc is for dos, but with a
liltle changes I made it for Win32. You can find the binaries at : 

ftp://argeas.argos.hol.gr/pub/unix/win32/less.zip


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Re: Does anyone have a man command??

[Christophe Agathon]

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I don't know where you can find a 'more', but you can use 'less', whitch is
the 
GNU alternative (and improved) 'more ' command.
I managed to compile less-v321 with cygnus b17.1 distrib and libtermcap-1.3
from GNU.
It was quite easy (I'm new in gnu win32 programming, but i know unix).
Feel free to ask for tips

Regards

        Christophe
        (chrisaga@club-internet.fr)


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> De : Wei Ku <weiku@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU>
> A : gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Objet : Re: Does anyone have a man command??
> Date : jeudi 27 mars 1997 23:38
> 
> > I'm not sure if this mailing list is the right place to
> > send this question, but I'm trying to find a man command
> > to allow me to view the man pages that are distributed with
> > the gnu-win32 toolset.  I've searched everywhere, but can't
> > seem to find one (or an equivalent *roff command).
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > 
> > Pete
> 
> Since there is a question about man.exe. I have another similar question:
> Where can I find the command: 'more' ?
> 
> Any reply is appreciated.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Wei Ku
> 
> ***************************************
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> The University of Tennessee
> 1408 Circle Drive
> Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200
> weiku@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
> ---------------------------------------
> Solid State Division
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
> P.O.Box 2008
> Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6032
> Phone: (423) 574-5795
> Fax: (423) 574-4143
> weiku@solid.ssd.ornl.gov
> ***************************************
> 
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Re: Does anyone have a man command??

[David Shochat]

Peter Craft wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if this mailing list is the right place to
> send this question, but I'm trying to find a man command
> to allow me to view the man pages that are distributed with
> the gnu-win32 toolset.  I've searched everywhere, but can't
> seem to find one (or an equivalent *roff command).
> 
Yes, when I first downloaded the Cygnus toolset, my first major
frustration was seeing all those man pages and finding nothing to view
them with. What I finally did was to get a non-Cygnus port of groff:
http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/groff-1.10nt.zip
Note that it does not include the groff driver program since whoever did
this port hadn't yet gotten that working under Win95/NT. So you have to
set up your pipeline yourself. For instance, I have the following bash
shell function defined in my .bashrc:

function mman() { troff -man -Tascii $1 | grotty | less; }

That's not very elegant, since you have to pass the actual man page file
to it. I'm sure I've seen smarter versions from others on this list.

Now I couldn't find less in the Cygnus toolset either. The one I use
came from:
http://wwwdim.uqac.uquebec.ca/ftp/pub/gnuwin32/less321w.zip

Don't try to use "mount"ed directories or the Cygnus-only //d/path way
of specifying drives since these are non-Cygnus ports and they won't
understand any of that.
-- David
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Does anyone have a man command??

[Peter Craft]

I'm not sure if this mailing list is the right place to
send this question, but I'm trying to find a man command
to allow me to view the man pages that are distributed with
the gnu-win32 toolset.  I've searched everywhere, but can't
seem to find one (or an equivalent *roff command).

Thanks in advance for any help.

Pete
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