Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!andy
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Subject: Re: 'man' for DOS?
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 16:55:28 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.165528.6367@mks.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
References: <1990Aug30.175019.11219@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <14508@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <4336@bwdls58.UUCP> <164@prodix.liu.se>


If you have awk for DOS you may want to look in comp.sources.unix
for the recently posted awf.  It is a formatter written in awk to
format nroff files which use the man macros or a subset of the ms
macros.  You can use this as a basis for a man command.  I suppose the
reason you want to do this is that you already have a collection of man
pages written using man macros which you want to format.  Otherwise it
would probably be easier to use an alternate man or help command that
already exists such as some of the ones already mentioned.  Those of
you who have an MKS product can create your own helpfiles to be used
its help command.
-- 
Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc.,       Internet: andy@mks.com
  35 King Street North, Waterloo,       UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy
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