How can I view the man packages?

How can I view the man packages?

[Lutz]

Hello,
I've got a little problem: I downloaded the full-man.tar.bz2 and the
user-man.tar.bz2. After unzipping and untaring both, I figured out that
I do not have any viewer or similar to view the files without all that
formatting stuff in them.
Is there any "man" or "info"  command available or a place I can get
sources for such a one?
Thanks,
Lutz


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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[R. Hickling]

> I've got a little problem: I downloaded the full-man.tar.bz2 and the
> user-man.tar.bz2. After unzipping and untaring both, I figured out that
> I do not have any viewer or similar to view the files without all that
> formatting stuff in them.
> Is there any "man" or "info"  command available or a place I can get
> sources for such a one?

There is an 'info' which probably can be made to work - check the mailing
list over the last couple of weeks.  I, however, could not get it to work
properly (NT4 SP4), or compile it from source properly.  Being in a hurry,
I gave up and downloaded 'emacs':
ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/docs/ntemacs.html
which is small enough to download quickly, is a good editor and can be
installed without having to use a brain.


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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[Corinna Vinschen]

"Lutz" wrote:
> I've got a little problem: I downloaded the full-man.tar.bz2 and the
> user-man.tar.bz2. After unzipping and untaring both, I figured out that
> I do not have any viewer or similar to view the files without all that
> formatting stuff in them.
> Is there any "man" or "info"  command available or a place I can get
> sources for such a one?

You can download a "man" package from

ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Hirmke_Michael/B20

You have to download the "ncurses" package from the same site.

I have a precompiled version of info-2.18, which works on my
pc without problems. Because many people in this group seems
to miss sth like this, I will publish it in the next days on

ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Vinschen_Corinna/B20


Regards,
Corinna


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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[Glenn Spell]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> I have a precompiled version of info-2.18, which works on my
> pc without problems. Because many people in this group seems
> to miss sth like this, I will publish it in the next days on

I have placed a precompiled text-mount version of info-3.12b at
< http://www.fay.nc.us/~glenn/cygwin/ >. This is a temp location.

This info package contains the info, install-info, and makeinfo
binaries and all the info files built from texinfo-3.12b.

Also included in the info package is a "dir" file with all
special control characters and tabs required by Info. There's a
"fix-info-dir" script for adding menus to the dir file.

Everything there was built on W95 using only text mounts. All text
files are archived in Windows/DOS format.

Also, there's a "flip" package there for converting text files back
and forth between *nix and DOS.

-glenn

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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[Glenn Spell]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> I have a precompiled version of info-2.18, which works on my
> pc without problems. Because many people in this group seems
> to miss sth like this, I will publish it in the next days on

I have placed a precompiled text-mount version of info-3.12b at
< http://www.fay.nc.us/~glenn/cygwin/ >. This is a temp location.

This info package contains the info, install-info, and makeinfo
binaries and all the info files built from texinfo-3.12b.

Also included in the info package is a "dir" file with all
special control characters and tabs required by Info. There's a
"fix-info-dir" script for adding menus to the dir file.

Everything there was built on W95 using only text mounts. All text
files are archived in Windows/DOS format.

Also, there's a "flip" package there for converting text files back
and forth between *nix and DOS.

-glenn

-- 
 )      Glenn Spell <glenn@gs.fay.nc.us>      )   _       _____
 )   Fayetteville, North Carolina, C. S. A.   )_ (__\____o /_/_ |
 )  _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _  )   >-----._/_/__]>
 )- blue skies - happy trails - sweet dreams -)             `0  |

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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[Corinna Vinschen]

"Lutz" wrote:
> I've got a little problem: I downloaded the full-man.tar.bz2 and the
> user-man.tar.bz2. After unzipping and untaring both, I figured out that
> I do not have any viewer or similar to view the files without all that
> formatting stuff in them.
> Is there any "man" or "info"  command available or a place I can get
> sources for such a one?

You can download a "man" package from

ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Hirmke_Michael/B20

You have to download the "ncurses" package from the same site.

I have a precompiled version of info-2.18, which works on my
pc without problems. Because many people in this group seems
to miss sth like this, I will publish it in the next days on

ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Vinschen_Corinna/B20


Regards,
Corinna


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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[R. Hickling]

> I've got a little problem: I downloaded the full-man.tar.bz2 and the
> user-man.tar.bz2. After unzipping and untaring both, I figured out that
> I do not have any viewer or similar to view the files without all that
> formatting stuff in them.
> Is there any "man" or "info"  command available or a place I can get
> sources for such a one?

There is an 'info' which probably can be made to work - check the mailing
list over the last couple of weeks.  I, however, could not get it to work
properly (NT4 SP4), or compile it from source properly.  Being in a hurry,
I gave up and downloaded 'emacs':
ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/docs/ntemacs.html
which is small enough to download quickly, is a good editor and can be
installed without having to use a brain.


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How can I view the man packages?

[Lutz]

Hello,
I've got a little problem: I downloaded the full-man.tar.bz2 and the
user-man.tar.bz2. After unzipping and untaring both, I figured out that
I do not have any viewer or similar to view the files without all that
formatting stuff in them.
Is there any "man" or "info"  command available or a place I can get
sources for such a one?
Thanks,
Lutz


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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[Ross Smith]

From: R. Hickling <hicklinr@mcd.alcatel.be>
>> I've got a little problem: I downloaded the full-man.tar.bz2 and the
>> user-man.tar.bz2. After unzipping and untaring both, I figured out that
>> I do not have any viewer or similar to view the files without all that
>> formatting stuff in them.
>> Is there any "man" or "info"  command available or a place I can get
>> sources for such a one?
>
>There is an 'info' which probably can be made to work - check the mailing
>list over the last couple of weeks.  I, however, could not get it to work
>properly (NT4 SP4), or compile it from source properly.  Being in a hurry,
>I gave up and downloaded 'emacs':
> ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/docs/ntemacs.html
>which is small enough to download quickly, is a good editor and can be
>installed without having to use a brain.

Personally, I hate the Info presentation, so I wrote a quick and dirty
info-to-HTML translator. If anyone wants it you can grab it from
ftp://animal.ihug.co.nz/pub/infoweb.tgz

(It's still slightly buggy -- it sometimes misses links that are
split across multiple lines.)

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.............. The Internet Group, Auckland, New Zealand ..............
    "Perl is the Unix way. 500 million ways of doing the same thing,
    and 500 million monster egos all insisting on their way being
    the Proper way of doing it." -- David Parsons



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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[R. Hickling]

> info-to-HTML translator. If anyone wants it you can grab it from
> ftp://animal.ihug.co.nz/pub/infoweb.tgz

I like it!


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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[R. Hickling]

> info-to-HTML translator. If anyone wants it you can grab it from
> ftp://animal.ihug.co.nz/pub/infoweb.tgz

I like it!


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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[Ross Smith]

From: R. Hickling <hicklinr@mcd.alcatel.be>
>> I've got a little problem: I downloaded the full-man.tar.bz2 and the
>> user-man.tar.bz2. After unzipping and untaring both, I figured out that
>> I do not have any viewer or similar to view the files without all that
>> formatting stuff in them.
>> Is there any "man" or "info"  command available or a place I can get
>> sources for such a one?
>
>There is an 'info' which probably can be made to work - check the mailing
>list over the last couple of weeks.  I, however, could not get it to work
>properly (NT4 SP4), or compile it from source properly.  Being in a hurry,
>I gave up and downloaded 'emacs':
> ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/docs/ntemacs.html
>which is small enough to download quickly, is a good editor and can be
>installed without having to use a brain.

Personally, I hate the Info presentation, so I wrote a quick and dirty
info-to-HTML translator. If anyone wants it you can grab it from
ftp://animal.ihug.co.nz/pub/infoweb.tgz

(It's still slightly buggy -- it sometimes misses links that are
split across multiple lines.)

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Ross Smith ................................... mailto:ross.s@ihug.co.nz
.............. The Internet Group, Auckland, New Zealand ..............
    "Perl is the Unix way. 500 million ways of doing the same thing,
    and 500 million monster egos all insisting on their way being
    the Proper way of doing it." -- David Parsons



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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> From: R. Hickling <hicklinr@mcd.alcatel.be>
> 
> Personally, I hate the Info presentation, so I wrote a quick and dirty
> info-to-HTML translator. If anyone wants it you can grab it from
> ftp://animal.ihug.co.nz/pub/infoweb.tgz
> 
> (It's still slightly buggy -- it sometimes misses links that are
> split across multiple lines.)
> 

Search for texi2html (convert info files to html) and for polyglotman aka
rosetta man (convert man files to a number of different formats one of which is
html).


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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[Glenn Spell]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> Search for texi2html (convert info files to html)

< http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~obachman/Texi2html/ >

Texi2html converts Texinfo files and not info files.
The latest version of makeinfo will also output html.

-glenn

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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[Glenn Spell]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> Search for texi2html (convert info files to html)

< http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~obachman/Texi2html/ >

Texi2html converts Texinfo files and not info files.
The latest version of makeinfo will also output html.

-glenn

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Re: How can I view the man packages?

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> From: R. Hickling <hicklinr@mcd.alcatel.be>
> 
> Personally, I hate the Info presentation, so I wrote a quick and dirty
> info-to-HTML translator. If anyone wants it you can grab it from
> ftp://animal.ihug.co.nz/pub/infoweb.tgz
> 
> (It's still slightly buggy -- it sometimes misses links that are
> split across multiple lines.)
> 

Search for texi2html (convert info files to html) and for polyglotman aka
rosetta man (convert man files to a number of different formats one of which is
html).


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