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Re: man under NT ???


At 07:47 PM 5/26/97 +0300, you wrote:
>Hello to everybody,
>
>Does anyone knows if there exists a unix man command that runs under winNT 
>4.0 ??

This may or may not be exactly what you are after but if you are an Emacs
user there is a new man package for emacs being developed calles woman
(With Out MAN), here is the original message:

>Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:51:25 +0100
>From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <F.J.Wright@qmw.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: F.J.Wright@qmw.ac.uk
>Organization: Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary - University of London
>To: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu
>Subject: Woman UN*X manual browser
>References: <199705152207.SAA08270@I1.pilgrim.com>
>Content-Length: 708
>
>An updated version (0.11) is now available (via the URL below).  It
>understands enough ?roff to format bash.1 readably (although slowly). 
>For the next version (0.2) I am re-writing the code for handling font
>changes to do something sensible with two-character font names, among
>other things, and I hope to be able to handle user-defined strings (.ds
>etc.).
>
>Francis
>
>-- 
>
>Dr Francis J. Wright  (Senior Tutor for Mathematics)
>School of Mathematical Sciences   | Email:     F.J.Wright@QMW.ac.uk
>Queen Mary & Westfield College    | Telephone: +44 171-975 5453 (direct)
>Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK  | Fax:       +44 181-981 9587 (dept.)
>      World Wide Web Home Page URL: http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~fjw/
>

It's not perfect but it really is quite good.

Guy

-- 
Guy Gascoigne - Piggford (ggp@informix.com)
Software Engineer, Informix Software, Inc. (Portland, Oregon)
(503) 225-4574,  Fax (503) 221-2633

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