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From: jian@prodix.liu.se (Jian Hu)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: 'man' for DOS?
Message-ID: <164@prodix.liu.se>
Date: 12 Sep 90 11:35:48 GMT
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mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:

>It's not exactly man(1), but 4DOS comes with reasonably extensive help 
>for both itself and MSDOS, built-in to the 'help' command.

>You could always 'alias man help' for ease of use.

When using 4DOS you can also, say, 

	alias man if exist %manual%\%1.man list %manual%\%1.man

provided you put the .man files (ASCII) in the dir. pointed by the env. var.