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- From: aalto@lyseo.otol.fi (Lauri Aalto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Man Datatype
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 09:02:23 GMT
- Organization: large
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- Bernhard A. Rieckhoff (bar@canuck.englewood.geoquest.slb.com) wrote:
- > Anyone gotten the "Man" datatype to work ? (it's on GoldFish 9) I've
- > installed it and checked that the classes and datatypes directory are
- > properly populated. Running snoopdos tells me it's opening up the files
- > as a text datatype. (Which is also what the multiview window looks
- > like.)
-
- It depends on what you call ``working'' The man datatype doesn't do any
- roffing. It jut converts those char-backspace-char triplets to boldface
- text and displays it with the text datatype. It picks up files by
- extension, only files matching #?.[0-9]áwill be picked by the datatype.
-
- And, you can find out the datatype used for a file by looking at the
- MultiView about requester.
-
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- Lauri Aalto <aalto@iki.fi> --- http://www.iki.fi/aalto/
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