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From: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
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Subject: Re: MAN page reader for msdos?
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Date: 25 Jan 91 13:38:34 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.000727.17647@cs.mcgill.ca> phil@cs.mcgill.ca (Philip LOCONG) writes:
>I get more and more Unix-like software which come with man pages (troff
>-man). Is there a man page reader for msdos?

There's a new version of a very old and fairly primitive nroff clone
that (I think) has been uploaded to SIMTEL20 recently, called NRO.
However, it comes with a fairly simple -man macro file which works
reasonably well with fairly simple man page files. To view one on the
screen you should be able to do something like "nro -man <file> | more".

There are, though other DOS *roff clones that may be better.
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