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From: rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: 'man' for DOS?
Message-ID: <14508@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 30 Aug 90 19:58:14 GMT
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umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) writes:

>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???

There are several help systems for MessDOS on simtel20 in
pd:<msdos.info>.  None are `man' clones.  One is a VMS help clone,
and the rest use their own file structures and access mechanisms.
My favourite is rbhelp, which is easily extensible, comes with a
complete and accurate DOS help database, searches rapidly, and comes
with C source.

--richard