Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!nosc!logicon.com!trantor.harris-atd.com!charybdis!sonny From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: 'man' for DOS? Message-ID: <4246@trantor.harris-atd.com> Date: 3 Sep 90 19:39:59 GMT References: <1990Aug30.175019.11219@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1990Aug31.125352.15596@athena.mit.edu> <90243.230555GRZ004@DBNGMD13.BITNET> Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Reply-To: sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) Organization: Advanced Technology Dept., Harris ESS, Melbourne, FL Lines: 33 If what you seek is help for the DOS internal and external commands, then by anonymous ftp to Simtel [26.2.0.74], in tenex mode, get: PD1:DOS33HLP.ARC For other things, write a batch file named "man.bat" which includes this command: LIST C:\document_directory\%1.doc LIST is your favorite DOS file viewer or pager. In the directory, C:\document_directory, put an xxx.doc file on any command or subject, xxx, for which you want help (or to consult the man page on). I generally pitch the manual for most software into the directory -- making sure it has the .doc extension. The batch file is, of course, in a directory which is on your PATH. You can also include the help command out of DOS33HLP.ARC in your man.bat file to get the benefit of the "man pages" there. To "read a man page", one then needs only to type: man xxx and the info appears on screen. And you can play like you're running UNIX... :-) Peace, ______________________________________________________________________________ Bob Davis \\ INTERNET : sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com | _ _ | Harris Corporation, ESS \\ UUCP : ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!sonny |_| |_| | | Advanced Technology Dept.\\ AETHER : K4VNO |==============|_/\/\/\|_| PO Box 37, MS 3A/1912 \\ VOICE : (407) 727-5886 | I SPEAK ONLY | |_| |_| | Melbourne, FL 32902 \\ FAX : (407) 729-2537 | FOR MYSELF. |_________|