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From: svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (Bill Svirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: man(1) for MSDOS?
Message-ID: <9563@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 90 23:12:46 GMT
References: <1990Feb1.175125.922@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1456@raybed2.UUCP> <19482@mephisto.UUCP> <1990Feb4.015412.26163@calvin.spp.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: svirsky@ttidcc.tti.com (Bill Svirsky)
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In article <1990Feb4.015412.26163@calvin.spp.cornell.edu> richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain) writes:
+In article <19482@mephisto.UUCP> scott@kong.UUCP (Scott Coulter) writes:
+>In article <1456@raybed2.UUCP> rgc@raybed2.UUCP (RICK CARLE) writes:
+>>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? ...

[stuff deleted]

+- I use an MSDOS port of LESS by Mark Nudelman as my PAGER, and this
+translates
+nroff-style bold/underline correctly, so I format the pages on the unix
+box that I use at work, and download the formatted files. ...

I do the same thing, but since I'm always short of disk space on my home
PC, I take it one step farther and archive all of the documentation. Most
archivers have an option to pipe an extracted file to standard out. So I
have a man.bat that consists of:

@zoo xp \usr\man\man %1.* | less

All of my docs are archived in \usr\man\man.zoo.

+
+Incidentally, this is an MSDOS port of less v 123 (the latest public release)
+that I've also had ready for release for a few weeks, waiting for c.b.i.p.
+It does everything in the unix version, plus a few bells and whistles for
+ibm pc's.

Can you post the sources to comp.sources.misc? Thanks.
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