Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!bloom-beacon!lfk From: lfk@athena.mit.edu (Lee F Kolakowski) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: 'man' for DOS? Message-ID: <1990Aug31.125352.15596@athena.mit.edu> Date: 31 Aug 90 15:53:34 GMT References: <1990Aug30.175019.11219@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: Mass. Inst. of Tech., Dept. of Chemistry Lines: 45 In-Reply-To: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca's message of 30 Aug 90 17:50:19 GMT On 30 Aug 90 17:50:19 GMT, umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) said: > Does anyone know if there is a man utility for DOS? It would be so much > handier to go 'man xcopy' than having to dig under the papers for my DOS > manual all of the time. Failing that, how about a quick reference chart > I could run when needed that would list all of the DOS commands and > switches??? I ported a Unix man program by Chip Rosenthal and it works very well but..... You need to have the following executables to get man to work like unix's man tbl <- Not PD neqn <- Not PD nroff <- Not PD more <- PD compress<- PD sh <- not PD, but there is a bourne shell port from Minix that is But more importantly man pages for DOS tools do not exist. There is a help system that was posted to comp.sources.misc that is simpler than man and is a flat file and a lookup table Perhaps that would be better than man. -- Frank Kolakowski ====================================================================== |lfk@athena.mit.edu || Lee F. Kolakowski | |lfk@eastman2.mit.edu || M.I.T. | |kolakowski@wccf.mit.edu || Dept of Chemistry | |lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu || Room 18-506 | |lfk@hx.lcs.mit.edu || 77 Massachusetts Ave.| |AT&T: 1-617-253-1866 || Cambridge, MA 02139 | |--------------------------------------------------------------------| | #include | | One-Liner Here! | ======================================================================