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- Document Man
-
- Man - © 1993-1995 by Markus Hillenbrand
- ---------------------------------------
-
- Man is a program to view texts and docs from Shell or WB. Therefore the
- Commodity has to be started.
-
-
- 1. Requirements
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- You need: - asl.library v37
- - intuition.library v37
- - gadtools.library v37
- - graphics.library v37
- - dos.library v37
- - icon.library v37
- - commodities.library v37
- - workbench.library v37
- - utility.library v37
- - reqtools.library v38 (c) by Nico François
-
- Supported: - locale.library v38
-
- Recommended: - a harddisk to use help-texts efficiently
- - "MultiView" from OS3.0 to read .guide files
- - "Amigaguide" from OS2.0, if you don´t have 3.0
-
-
- 2. Installer
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- As the program 'installer' (© by Commodore) is not freely distributable
- and it is needed for installation, you must be sure to have it in the
- path of your shell (e.g. C:, SYS:Utilities, ...). You can find the program
- on your workbench-disk for OS2.0, OS2.1 or OS3.0.
-
- If your version of installer does not work with the installation-script
- of man, you may install 'man' yourself:
-
- 1. Click on the icon 'man' and drag it to 'Workbench:WBStartUp'.
- 2. If you have OS2.1, copy the directory 'Catalogs' to 'Locale:Catalogs'.
-
-
- 3. ToolTypes
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Starting the program, it searches for the following Tooltypes:
-
- 3.1. CX_PRIORITY
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- CX_PRIORITY=x, where x stands for a value with -128<x<128. This value
- represents the priority for the commodity. Default is 0.
-
- 3.2. CX_POPKEY
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can enter a hotkey which will open the config-window when
- pressed. Default is 'ctrl lalt m'.
-
- 3.3. DONOTWAIT
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This Entry is not important, it´s only neccesary for system-startup.
-
- 3.4. HOTKEY
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can enter a hotkey which will open the text-requester when
- pressed. Default is 'ctrl help'.
-
- 3.5. DATA
- ~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can enter a filename under which the lists of texts will be
- saved. Default is 'Work:Man.LST'.
-
- 3.6. GUIDE
- ~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can enter the program to use if you want to read a .guide file.
-
- 3.7. DVI
- ~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can enter the program to use if you want to read a .dvi file.
-
- 3.8. UNIX
- ~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can enter the program to use if you want to read a standard
- UNIX man page.
-
- 3.9. PROGRAM
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can enter the program to use if you want to read a plain text
- file. The program enteres in the configuration window can be saved here
- if you click 'save' in the configuration window.
-
- 3.10. REQX and REQY
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can specify the top left edge of the requester which opens when
- you press the hotkey or enter 'man' in your shell. The actual window
- position will be saved here if you click 'enter' in the configuration
- window.
-
- 3.11. WINX and WINY
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can specify the top left edge of the configuration window. The
- actual window position will be saved here if you click 'enter' in the
- configuration window.
-
- 3.12. REQENTRIES
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can enter the number of visible entries in the listview of the
- requester. If your number is too great, a new value will be calculated.
-
- 4. Configuration
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- To configure the program, type "man -c" or "man -config" in your shell.
- A window opens where you can enter several specifications.
-
- This window can also be opened by double-clicking the program-icon or
- by activating the gadget 'Activate Window' in the program 'Exchange'
- (© by Commodore).
-
- The opened window is an AppWindow. This means that you can drop icons
- on it. These icons will be added to the list in the listviewgadget.
-
- The window is devided into three parts:
-
- 4.1. List of Help-Texts
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- In the upper halp of the window there is a listview-gadget, where all
- actual texts are shown. On the right side there are some gadgets:
-
- 4.1.1. Add
- ~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you activate this gadget, a requester wille be opened which lets you
- add one single textfile to the list of texts.
-
- 4.1.2. Delete
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- The text highlighted in the listview will be deletet by pressing this gadget.
-
- 4.1.3. Edit
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- The text highlighted in the listview can be edited by pressing this gadget
- (i.e. if the path has changed).
-
- 4.1.4. ScanDir
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- With this gadget you can search through a whole directory in order to find
- some texts. All subdirectories will be searched as well. This is especially
- useful by configuring the program for the first time, because it saves a
- lot of time.
-
- 4.1.5. DelAll
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- That means: delete all. This gadget lets you delete the whole list of
- texts.
-
- 4.2. Program to show texts
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here you can enter the program to use for viewing and reading texts (maybe
- your favourite text-reader). The gadget on the right opens a requester.
-
- 4.3. Standard-Gadgets
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- With 'Save' the actual list of texts will be saved. With 'Hide' the win-
- dow will be closed and with 'Quit' the program will be removed from memory.
- (Changes will NOT be saved).
-
-
- 5. Shell-usage
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- To read a text from shell, you have to add its name in the command line.
- Here you must not enter the suffix! "Man lha" for example searches for
- lha.doc, lha.dok, lha.man, and ... in the list.
- This text will then be shown with your preferred text-reader. If you enter
- "man -l" you´ll get a list of all texts.
- If you call man without any parameter, a window os opened where you can
- select a text.
- If you enter a pattern (#?, ? etc.), all texts matching this pattern will be
- listed. If only one text matches, it will be shown immediately.
- With "man -q" you can unload the commodity.
-
- 6. Localization under WB2.1+
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Since Workbench 2.1 the program can be localized, i.e. it can be translated
- into several languages. Therefor I added the C source of the catalog. In the
- original version only German, Swedish and English are supported.
- The C source can easily be changed, and with a suitable program (e.g. MakeCat
- - © Paladin-Software etc.) you can rebuild the catalog.
- If you have created a new catalog it would be nice if you send me the new
- C source via e-mail. Perhaps I can add the new language in a newer version
- of man.
-
-
- 7. Copyright
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- CAUTION:
- Since version 3.1, 'man' is CARDWARE. So you'll have to send me a postcard
- of your country/home/city/... with a few words from you (in your own
- language ?) if you use 'man' regularly.
-
- 'Man' is Copyright (C) 1993-95 Markus Hillenbrand and it's freely distributable
- as long as all of its files are included in their original form without
- additions, deletions, or modifications of any kind, and only a nominal fee
- is charged for its distribution. This software is provided *AS IS* without
- warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. By using 'Man', you agree
- to accept the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program.
-
- Of course, it was tested rather extensively before it was released...
-
-
- 8. Address of the author
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here´s my address (bug-report, suggestions or something like that, and the
- postcard):
-
- Markus Hillenbrand
- Hauptstrasse 9
- 36124 Eichenzell-Loeschenrod
-
- GERMANY
-
-
- or e-mail: m_hillen@informatik.uni-kl.de
-
-
- 9. Man pages
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you intend to write a man page for this archive, please read the hints
- and tips in the directory "ManPages".
- If you are interested in a package of man pages for the original AmigaDOS
- commands, feel free to contact Lars Oloffson (e-mail: pt93lo@pt.hk-r.se).
-
- 10. Thanks
- ~~~~~~~~~~
-
- - Nico François for his famous reqtools.library
- - Lars Oloffson for his swedish catalog
- - Marcus Flehmig for beta-testing
- - Stephan Sürken for his program 'Text2Guide'
- - Roman Patzner für seine RomIcons
-