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From: rgc@raybed2.UUCP (RICK CARLE)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: man(1) for MSDOS?
Summary: Richard Brittain's 'help'
Message-ID: <1456@raybed2.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 13:41:33 GMT
References: <1990Feb1.175125.922@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Organization: Raytheon Co., Bedford, Mass.
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In article <1990Feb1.175125.922@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, marshall@alpha.ces.cwru.edu ( ) writes:
> 
> 	I was wondering if there was a program which will operate on UN*X-
> style man(1) pages and print them, readably, on the page? ...

I think that, to run u*ix-style man, you'd need nroff, which must be huge.
But, there's a public domain program named "help," written by Wolf Paul
and improved by John Plocher and most recently by Richard Brittain, that
might provide the features you need.  It's extendable (although I've
never tried it) by adding "helpfile"s via an environment variable.
I suppose the helpfiles could be your (pre-formatted) manual pages.
I've found "help" quite useful without ever having tried this feature.
You can probably get "help" by ftp from the Clarkson bulletin board,
grape.ecs.clarkson.edu.  It might be archived as "rbhelp."
	Rick Carle, rgc@raybed2.ray.com